The organs of a Kurnool-based school assistant who died in a mishap has given new life to five people who received her liver, kidneys and eyes. The victim, Pooja Vijaya Gowri, was the wife of Mr P. Chalam, deputy superintendent of police at the Kurnool Police Training Centre.
MOHAN Foundation (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) is conducting training programmes in transplant coordination and grief counselling — a first in South Asia. The coordinators help pass on life.
On Saturday morning, Bandlaguda resident P Ramesh Reddy changed his moment of grief into happiness for seven needy families. He donated his 53-year-old brain dead mother Indira Reddy's liver, heart valves, kidneys and eyes. Of the seven recipients of her organs, two were battling with renal failure and liver cirrhosis.
Public awareness campaigns to encourage organ donations are at an all time high as the shortage of organs for transplant causes the death of 1.25 lakh Indians annually
At the Mohan Foundation office in Chennai, the girls are just back from an organ donation camp they had helped organize at the Marina beach with the sponsorship of a major bicycle brand. For the workers of the Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network, a non-governmental organization which has been
In a rare feat, Frontier Lifeline Hospitals has performed heart transplants simultaneously on two patients hailing from Chennai.
Organs of a 41-year-old social worker from Pallavaram were harvested after he was declared brain dead on Sunday. V.G. Veeramani was a resident of Lakshmipuram in Chromepet. A document writer, he lost consciousness at the Pallavaram Registrar's Office on Saturday afternoon. After first aid at a
The kidneys of five-year-old Janani, who was declared brain-dead, were on Thursday transplanted to her father Chandrasekar.
The kidneys of a five-year-old traffic accident victim are to be harvested and transplanted in her father.
The tragedy of transplant medicine has always been that someone has to die for someone else to live. Perhaps nothing has made this as painful as in the case of 36-year-old Chandrasekaran, a kidney patient, who may be receiving the kidneys of his five-year-old daughter. The girl has been declared brain dead after a road accident in Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh.
