CHENNAI: For three years, six friends have been taking long rides every weekend, just for fun. But over the next nine days, the six young men will venture out on a much longer ride a 2,000 km rally across Tamil Nadu to raise awareness about organ donation.
Six young men will be riding motorcycles across 2000 km in Tamil Nadu to raise awareness about organ donation through a "Rally for Life".
MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation, a national Non-Government Organization that promotes organ donation, has organised the event. MOHAN has helped create an organ sharing network among hospitals performing transplants in the country.
THE family members of Rajaiah, a 48-year-old BSNL employee, gave new lease of life to four persons by donating his two kidneys and heart valves after he was declared 'brain dead'. The doctors of Mohan Foundation retrieved the organs and transplanted the kidneys to two patients. The heart valves have been retrieved by doctors from Innova Hospital and will be used for two patients.
Each time a family grieving a death turns away social activist Brojo Roy, gastroenterologist Abhijit Chowdhury of SSKM Hospital sees a ray of hope fade for some of his patients with terminal liver disease.
CHENNAI: It was one of busiest days at the Central Organ Registry the nodal agency working from the Government General Hospital to network
CHENNAI: Almost 10 years ago, even doctors hesitated to declare a road traffic accident victim brain-dead. Campaigns for harvesting organs of brain-dead patients were also ignored. On Saturday, the Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala felicitated 13 families who had donated organs in the last six months. The state has recorded one of highest number of organ donations in the country.
CHENNAI: Long years of struggle convincing relatives of brain-dead patients to give their consent for organ donation appears to be paying off, with the number of organ donors going up in the last couple of years.
CHENNAI: The MGR medical university went to town announcing the inauguration of the Central Organ Registry in the city on July 11, 1997. Today,
Shocked but not surprised. That might be the best way to sum up India's reaction to the revelation this week that a black market organ transplant ring had been harvesting kidneys from poor Indian laborers, sometimes against their wishes, and using them in foreigners desperate for transplants.
CHENNAI: Eight-year-old Nanjil Valavan lying in the intensive care unit of the Government General Hospital here, declared brain dead by doctors,
