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Total Press & Media Count: 662
  • 'Rally for life' to promote organ donation

    The Hindu, Saturday, September 5, 2009

    Six young men will be riding motorcycles across 2000 km in Tamil Nadu to raise awareness about organ donation through a "Rally for Life".
    MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation, a national Non-Government Organization that promotes organ donation, has organised the event. MOHAN has helped create an organ sharing network among hospitals performing transplants in the country.

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    • 'Brain Dead' man's organs donated

      Indian Express, Wednesday, August 12, 2009

      THE family members of Rajaiah, a 48-year-old BSNL employee, gave new lease of life to four persons by donating his two kidneys and heart valves after he was declared 'brain dead'. The doctors of Mohan Foundation retrieved the organs and transplanted the kidneys to two patients. The heart valves have been retrieved by doctors from Innova Hospital and will be used for two patients.

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      • Lives lost for lack of organ harvest

        The Telegraph, Monday, May 25, 2009

        Each time a family grieving a death turns away social activist Brojo Roy, gastroenterologist Abhijit Chowdhury of SSKM Hospital sees a ray of hope fade for some of his patients with terminal liver disease.

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        • With three calls, organ registry has busy day

          The Times of India, Wednesday, January 28, 2009

          CHENNAI: It was one of busiest days at the Central Organ Registry the nodal agency working from the Government General Hospital to network

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          • Organ donation in state on upswing

            The Times of India, Sunday, November 16, 2008

            CHENNAI: Almost 10 years ago, even doctors hesitated to declare a road traffic accident victim brain-dead. Campaigns for harvesting organs of brain-dead patients were also ignored. On Saturday, the Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala felicitated 13 families who had donated organs in the last six months. The state has recorded one of highest number of organ donations in the country.

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            • 25% of India's transplants take place in Chennai

              The Times of India, Wednesday, April 16, 2008

              CHENNAI: Long years of struggle convincing relatives of brain-dead patients to give their consent for organ donation appears to be paying off, with the number of organ donors going up in the last couple of years.

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              • State's organ registration initiative never took off

                The Times of India, Wednesday, April 16, 2008

                CHENNAI: The MGR medical university went to town announcing the inauguration of the Central Organ Registry in the city on July 11, 1997. Today,

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                • India's Black Market Organ Scandal

                  Time World, Friday, February 1, 2008

                  Shocked but not surprised. That might be the best way to sum up India's reaction to the revelation this week that a black market organ transplant ring had been harvesting kidneys from poor Indian laborers, sometimes against their wishes, and using them in foreigners desperate for transplants.

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