Three people got a new lease of life after a road accident victim's liver and kidneys were transplanted into them.
A 42-year-old rural primary school teacher, who was declared brain dead after a road accident, has gifted a new lease of life to five persons by donating organs.
The High Court on Thursday held out some hope for dying muscular dystrophy patient K Venkatesh by directing the organ donation authorisation committee to reconsider the question of permitting him to donate his organs.
In a magnanimous gesture overcoming her biggest personal loss, the widow of a tea vendor in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy donated her husband's liver, kidneys and eyes here on Monday, giving a new lease of life to five persons.
The family of a 27-year-old woman, who was declared brain dead, enabled five persons to open a new chapter in their lives by donating her organs to them.
Doctors at Care Hospitals, Banjara Hills, have said that the heart transplantation carried out on a patient, Rama Rao, on May 9 was successful and the patient should be able to leave the hospital in a week.
A rare cadaver liver extraction operation was recently performed at city-based Ruby Hall clinic under the guidance of UK trained doctors working in Global Transplant Hospital, Hyderabad.
Doctors and social workers in Pune on Monday decided to make a concerted effort to create public awareness for cadaver organ transplants.
A teenager turned out to be the inspiration for an octogenarian. At the end of the memorial service for 19-year-old R. Swami Narayan's, whose organs were donated, the elderly gentleman stood up and told others that he too had decided to donate all his organs.
The first heart transplant in the state of a 33-year-old daily wage earner and bread winner of a family, K Ramesh from Medchal who had been suffering from an end-stage heart disease has proved successful, transplant surgeon Dr A Gopalakrishna Gokhale said.
