It is the fourth anniversary of the MOHAN Foundation. And it is sheer chance that Dr. Sunil Shroff happens to be talking about the efforts that went into launching the Multiple Organ Harvesting Aid Network on its anniversary. But it was certainly more than chance that the network has progressed the
Though Ms. Mymoon Beevi and Ms. Shankari had met before several times, it was different this time. The latter saw the glimmer of life her mother had left behind, crossing a major milestone.
MOHAN Foundation and the Chennai chapter of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine are jointly holding a workshop on `brain death' for doctors on June 11 at Sundaram Medical Foundation, Anna Nagar from 9 a.m. There is no registration fee, but seats are limited.
Tamil Nadu has become the first State in the country to launch a 'donor card' that allows one to donate one's organs in the event of his death, in a regional language.
ONE of the objectives of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 was to clear the decks legally for the development of a cadaver-based organ transplantation programme. Towards this end, the Act recognised and defined, for the first time in India, the concept of "brain-stem death".
