HYDERABAD: Doctors at the Global Hospitals here transplanted heart and kidney simultaneously on a 57-year old recipient on Friday night. The organs were retrieved from a brain dead victim of a road accident two days ago. His liver as also transplanted on another patient and eyes donated to a city
Doctors at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) here successfully carried out a heart transplantation on a 28-year-old farmer, who has been facing recurrent heart failure. The procedure was carried out in the early hours of Friday after the heart was retrieved from a "brain dead"
Forty-year-old Venkateswarlu, who was suffering from kidney failure for the past few years, underwent kidney transplantation on June 11 after Radhika donated it. However, the kidney failed within two days and had to be removed by doctors. Talking to reporters on Tuesday after senior Congress
The Health Department will suspend the licences of hospitals engaged in buying and selling of kidneys and initiate criminal action, Health Minister K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran said here on Friday.
It was school teacher Guna Ramacharyulu's long-standing desire to donate her organs and help another suffering soul. On Saturday, after doctors checked her twice and confirmed that she was brain-dead, that desire was finally realised.
A recent move of the Centre to promote live organ donations has raised concerns over this indirectly fuelling an already rampant organ trade.
HYDERABAD: On January 15, when the rest of the city was celebrating Sankranti, parents of 21-year-old Jijo Mathews were biting down the grief of their son's demise in a city hospital and signing papers that would give a renewed lease of life to five other people.
HYDERABAD: Four generations of his family served the Indian Army, battling enemies from across the border. His father is a Sena Medal winner and
The Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) held a support group meeting for patients and relatives of patients who have undergone organ transplants at Sundaram Medical Foundation on Sunday morning.
There are over 1.5 lakh people in need of kidneys in the country, over one lakh need liver and nearly 50,000 need heart transplant. Yet, there are only about 60 cadaver transplants that take place in the country annually.
