At the Mohan Foundation office in Chennai, the girls are just back from an organ donation camp they had helped organize at the Marina beach with the sponsorship of a major bicycle brand. For the workers of the Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network, a non-governmental organization which has been
In a rare feat, Frontier Lifeline Hospitals has performed heart transplants simultaneously on two patients hailing from Chennai.
Organs of a 41-year-old social worker from Pallavaram were harvested after he was declared brain dead on Sunday. V.G. Veeramani was a resident of Lakshmipuram in Chromepet. A document writer, he lost consciousness at the Pallavaram Registrar's Office on Saturday afternoon. After first aid at a
The kidneys of five-year-old Janani, who was declared brain-dead, were on Thursday transplanted to her father Chandrasekar.
The kidneys of a five-year-old traffic accident victim are to be harvested and transplanted in her father.
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.
