HYDERABAD: On January 15, when the rest of the city was celebrating Sankranti, parents of 21-year-old Jijo Mathews were biting down the grief of their son's demise in a city hospital and signing papers that would give a renewed lease of life to five other people.
HYDERABAD: Four generations of his family served the Indian Army, battling enemies from across the border. His father is a Sena Medal winner and
The Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) held a support group meeting for patients and relatives of patients who have undergone organ transplants at Sundaram Medical Foundation on Sunday morning.
There are over 1.5 lakh people in need of kidneys in the country, over one lakh need liver and nearly 50,000 need heart transplant. Yet, there are only about 60 cadaver transplants that take place in the country annually.
It's supposed to be the best line of treatment for many diseases. And often, the only one for fatally-ill patients suffering from renal or liver failure. Yet, in India, cadaveric organ donation is not popular.
Four patients got a new lease of life when the family members of a brain dead person donated the organs to the needy.
In both sickness and health Nayan Dhamdhere promoted organ donation in India with her full zeal. This dedicated social worker who died on March 31 campaigned tirelessly for this mission from her hometown Pune and in the work she was helped by her husband Mr.Rajan and her father-in-law.
"Early detection and prevention" will be the theme of the first World Kidney Day to be celebrated on March 9 in response to a call by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN).
He lives even in death. Gottipati Srinivas breathed his last on January 13 and yet he lives in six different persons who received his liver, kidneys, heart valves and corneas. This is the first cadaver organ donation of the year. And those who facilitated the organ donation are NRIs living at the other end of the globe -- St. Louis, US.
The recent incident in the city where a man found one of his kidneys missing has turned the spotlight once again on a possible organ sale racket in the city.
