In an encouraging example of organ and tissue donation, a family from Kharghar donated the bones of their loved one, apart from her corneas and skin. For Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), which houses the country’s oldest and city’s lone tissue bank, it was only the third such donation since 2016.
Going a step ahead of the promise the Cardiological Society of India’s Vidarbha chapter (CSI VC) had made in September last year, eleven children as young as three months to ten years underwent free heart surgeries. President Dr Sunil Washimkar had pledged that he and his team would perform ten free surgeries.
P,H,HP & C directorate chandigarh organised blood and organ donation seminar on 24 aug 18 at thapar auditorium, patiala. Cadets of 5 punjab bn ncc, under ncc group hq patiala participated in the seminar. The event also included blood donation camp and campaign for organ donation.
Tamil Nadu has been a frontrunner in organ donation. Call it the collective effort between hospitals and not-for-profit organisations or the willingness of people, the state has the highest number of organ donors in India.
Youngsters continue to keep alive the organ donation drive. Many of them are increasingly getting involved by pledging their organs. In fact, some of them have turned their birthdays into an occasion to pledge their organs and get donor cards.
Youngsters continue to keep alive the organ donation drive. Many of them are increasingly getting involved by pledging their organs. In fact, some of them have turned their birthdays into an occasion to pledge their organs and get donor cards.
The GAVS Dream Runners Half Marathon (DRHM) 2018 held in the city on Sunday saw more than 4,000 runners participating in the event. The 7th edition of the half marathon was held with the theme ‘Run, so they can walk’ by Dream Runners.
THE Lord Mayor of Chester greeted an intrepid campaigner who had just completed a gruelling 83-day drive from Mumbai to London. Cllr Alex Black and wife Janet welcomed Bhal Shekhar Chilana and his wife Namita to the city on the evening of Saturday, July 14.
Almost a decade after the State government made it mandatory for organ transplant centres to display the cost range for transplant surgeries on their website, a majority of such authorised centres have yet to adhere to the Government Order issued to this effect in 2008.
An individual who has donated her kidney is unlikely to be eligible for a health cover. “This, despite the fact that the donor can perform all routine activities without any hurdles,” says Lalitha Raghuram, country director, Mohan Foundation, an NGO involved in promoting organ donation.
