The Indian Express250 people willing to be organ donors in ChandigarhTimes of IndiaProf Mukut Minz, head, department of renal transplant surgery, highlighted the progress made in organ donation in last few years in PGI. The first deceased donor transpl…
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‘Country must aim for one per million organ donor rate by 2020′
Times of India Most felt India should aim at pushing the deceased organ donor rate to one per million by 2020. “The 2014 rate of 0.34 per million is a significant leap from 0.16 seen in 2012. But it is time to intensify networking,” said Dr Sunil Shroff, managing … |
New York Times (blog) |
Opinionator | It’s Time to Compensate Kidney Donors
New York Times (blog) Removing disincentives would help to lessen discrimination — poor people suffer more kidney disease, but have less chance at living donors who could get them off the waiting list. Having more living donors would shorten the wait for a deceased donor … |
The Indian ExpressCorridor set up between Command Hospital, airport to transport organsThe Indian Express… event was marked by a solemn ceremony in which the next of kin and families of the deceased donors were felicitated by Dr D P Lochan, Director …
The New Indian ExpressOrgan Donations on the Rise in StateThe New Indian ExpressBut, unfortunately, in a country like India, cadaver (deceased) donors are very few compared to living donors, Dr L Narendranath, NIMS director and Jeevandan co-chairman sa…
ABC Online |
An organ donor and recipient tell their story 50 years after the first kidney …
ABC Online Doctors at Sydney’s Prince Henry Hospital completed the first kidney transplant in New South Wales 50 years ago. Since then more than 1,400 kidney transplants from both living and deceased donors, ranging in ages from one to 73, have been undertaken. |
The Jewish PressGiving While Living: Liver Donation Saves Monsey MomThe Jewish PressAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing website, in the United States in 2012 there were 230 liver transplants from a living donor and 5,527 transplants from …
Channel News Asia |
Singapore’s first liver transplant patient turns 50
Channel News Asia Donor livers can be obtained from both deceased and living donors. In Singapore, the most common conditions that require a liver transplant are liver cancer and chronic liver failure from hepatitis B virus infection, said Professor KK Madhavan, co … |
Chandigarh Tribune |
The realm of compassion,care and convincing
Chandigarh Tribune The word donation is derived from the Latin verb ‘to give’. It is widely acknowledged that there is no greater gift than the gift of life. The opportunity to donate organs following Brain Death (BD) of a loved one provides a silver lining to the cloud … |
Memphis Commercial AppealHypothermia in organ donors may improve kidney transplants6abc.comThe same technique which saves people after cardiac arrest and stroke may help improve kidney transplants. A new study shows that cooling the bodies of deceased …