The tragedy of transplant medicine has always been that someone has to die for someone else to live. Perhaps nothing has made this as painful as in the case of 36-year-old Chandrasekaran, a kidney patient, who may be receiving the kidneys of his five-year-old daughter. The girl has been declared brain dead after a road accident in Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh.
Three families that had donated the organs of their brain dead kin were honoured in Chennai today by the Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) at Loyola College here.
Death was within staring distance for V. Kusuma Kumari when her daughter B. Rajeswari took a brave decision.
Jaipur: A person declared 'brain dead' can help save the lives of many other patients who are unable to undergo a much-needed transplant in the absence of a donor. Efforts are now being made in the city to establish a network of hospitals to enable voluntary cadaver donations.
The city-based Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation is organising one-week training programme in Grief Counselling and Organ Donation from Monday, a press release from Foundation CEO, K. Raghuram said.
An act of kindness can go a long way. More so, if a person is being given a second chance of life through an organ transplant. However, the rate of organ donations in the city is yet to pick up and there is a dearth of grievance counsellors to create awareness about organ donations.
Even in the face of bereavement, his family did not forget about what he stood for. Ex-serviceman Govardhan Naidu served the Indian Army for 17 years and retired with dignity. When he was declared brain dead the day after Republic Day, the family decided to donate his organs, so that they can be of
HYDERABAD: Even as he was grieving the sudden loss of his 22-year-old son on Vijaya Dasami, the noble gesture of the farmer from Karimnagar gave a new lease of life to four patients and sight to two others.
The organs were retrieved from "brain dead" Edla Raju of Gudoor, in Karimnagar district, a two-wheeler mechanic who met with an accident on September 27.
CHENNAI: Very soon, you will know from a person's driving licence if he/she has pledged body organs for donation after death. The licence holder's status on organ donation will be either printed or encoded in the smart card, S Michendranathan, Principal Secretary and Transport Commissioner of Tamil
Transport Commissioner S. Machendranathan said that information regarding 'Organ Donation Clause' would definitely be included in the smart cards of driving licences, even while the Transport Department would consider whether to include the clause in the present cards.
