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UK doctor asks WB govt to start corpse donation programme
Business Standard Tata Medical Center’s deputy director Dr V R Ramanan said India needs 200,000 kidney and 100,000 liver transplants every year but only 3 per cent of organs are available. “There is poor public awareness on the issue and organ retrieval infrastructure … |
Despite risk, wife donates liver to manDeccan ChronicleHis wife came up for donation, but the anatomy of the donor was complicated, and was left with no other donor. With a multi-disciplinary team approach we took up the challenge and performed the tra…
Just 1 Jeevandan at OsmaniaThe Asian AgeHyderabad: Of the 35 people who have donated organs to the Jeevandan scheme of the government, only one donation was utilised by the Osmania General Hospital, while other government hospitals have been struggling…
Holiday Best Bets: Nov. 29-Dec. 5Florida TodayAttendees are asked to bring a nonperishable food item for donation. Food will be … Indian River String Quartet: Cocoa Beach Community Church, 126 S. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach. … Holiday music will be …
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CMC to Join Body That Will Frame Policies on Liver care
The New Indian Express “We are happy to thank the community for the organ donations (harvested from brain dead persons) and we are returning something to the society by way of performing free transplantation to the poor and the needy,” Eapen said. Lack of country-based data … |
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No facilities for treatment of congenital heart ailments: Himanta
Times of India Addressing an interactive session with parents of children having heart diseases here on Wednesday, Sarma said, “There are an estimated 15,000 children in the state having congenital heart diseases. But treatment to this disease is not available in the … Assam to offer heart treatment to 619 ailing kidsCanIndia News |
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An enduring success story
The Hindu Though the significance of this transplant was not immediately apparent to anyone but the team who operated on him, over two years down the line the doctors dared to talk about India’s first successful liver transplant (Indian Paediatrics, 2001 … 36 Year Old Undergoes 16 Hour Liver Transplant Surgery at HCG, Gets a New …Business Wire India (press release) |
Manipal Hospital: A Life Changing Open Heart Surgery in India on a 31 Weeks …SBWire (press release)Weighing a mere 1.3 kgs, after her delivery, Andrea lived her first 2 months in ICU, with 2 large holes in her heart, because she was not able to breat…
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Assam to offer heart treatment to 619 ailing kids
Daily News & Analysis The Assam government will treat, free of cost, 619 children with congenital heart defect (CHD), at Kolkata and Bangalore in the next four months, state Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said Wednesday. The minister added that … |
Business Wire India (press release)36 Year Old Undergoes 16 Hour Liver Transplant Surgery at HCG, Gets a New …Business Wire India (press release)HCG Hospitals, organized a press conference on treating 36 year old Indian from USA, diagnosed with liver…