Third heart transplantation in Kozhikode in a month
On Saturday, the city saw the third heart transplantation in just about a month. The heart of 52-year-old Joseph Cherian, a businessman from Idukki district, was harvested among other organs at Aster...
View Article52-year-old man gifts life to three
Laissamma smiled through her grief. For, her beloved life- partner was leaving this world after another heroic act: saving the lives of four others. Joseph, a 52-year-old businessman from Nedumkadam,...
View ArticleYet another heartbeat of hope
: The State witnessed one more emergency journey of ‘a heart’ from Thrissur to Cochin International Airport at Nedumbassery on Thursday, which was airlifted to Chennai. Asokan’s heart was taken in an...
View ArticleTeen dies waiting for liver, gives life to two after death
NEW DELHI: Akansha Joshi, an 18-year-old student with a failing liver, died last month waiting for a liver donor. But what she couldn't get during her last days, she gave away in death. The teenager...
View ArticleDelivering gift of life 209 km away in 45 minutes
he family of Neelakanta Sharma (46), a practising advocate at the Vanchiyoor district court here, who was declared brain-dead following brain aneurysm rupture at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for...
View ArticleHeart from Kochi beats in Chennai
In an act that combined empathy , expertise and extreme coordination, the heart and lungs of a 19-year-old were flown from a Kochi hospital and transplanted in a 24-year-old patient, from Maharashtra,...
View ArticleMaharashtra youth gets heart, lungs from Kochi boy in Chennai
For about four hours and forty-five minutes, a heart and lungs travelled – from a hospital in Kochi to the airport, on a chartered aircraft to Chennai and then raced through the city – to reach Fortis...
View ArticleDistrict admin clears hurdle to donate organs of 12-yr-old
KOCHI: The quick response and negotiation skills of the district administration in both Ernakulam and Thrissur ensured that all legal hurdles were cleared to donate the organs of 12-year-old Adith...
View ArticleAnother Tuesday, another heart flies to Chennai hosp
KOCHI: Exactly a week after the organs of a 19-year-old was airlifted to Chennai from here, the heart and lungs of another accident victim was flown to the Tamil Nadu capital, where a 10-year-old girl...
View ArticleFifth green corridor in Indore in 5 months to transport organs
INDORE: Two green corridors were created in Indore on Tuesday to transport liver and kidneys of a brain dead patient. His liver was sent to a hospital in Delhi while kidneys were used for transplant in...
View ArticleLiving long after you are gone
In life, the paths of seven-year-old Deyaan Udani, growing up in Sydney, and 26-year-old Harish Nanjappa, working in Bengaluru, may have never crossed, but in death, they did. While Nanjappa, his body...
View ArticleOrgans of martial arts champ gives life to 4 people
INDORE: Organs of a 21-year-old martial arts champ, who was declared brain dead after a road accident, gave a fresh lease of life to four people on Saturday, re-enforcing Indore's tag as the organ...
View ArticleOrgans of martial arts champ gives life to 4 persons
Indore: Organs of a 21-year-old martial arts champ, who was declared brain dead after a road accident, gave a fresh lease of life to four people on Saturday, re-enforcing Indore's tag as the organ...
View ArticleBrain dead woman gifts life to four
KOZHIKODE: Family members of a 37-year-old woman hailing from Kasaragod district who was declared brain dead following an accident have gifted fresh lease of life to four persons by donating the organs...
View ArticleIn death, elderly saves 3 lives
NOIDA: A 74-year-old "brain-dead" man's family kept his last wish by donating his kidneys and liver - giving a fresh lease of life to three others. Pawan Kumar, a resident of Kavi Nagar in Ghaziabad,...
View ArticleYouth dies in road accident, sister donates his organs
KOCHI: A 25-year-old brain-dead youth from Mannarasala, near Harippad in Alappuzha, gifted new lease of life to seven persons on Thiruvonam. Vishnu G Krishnan, a welder and lone bread winner of his...
View Article15-year-old gets a second chance to life, thanks to timely heart transplant
--> dna Correspondent | Mon, 12 Sep 2016-07:20am , Mumbai , dna The heart belonged to a 19 year old boxer. Yet another successful heart transplantation procedure was conducted on a 15-year-old boy...
View ArticleStudent's family donates his heart, other vital organs
PUNE: The heart and other vital organs of a brain-dead student were donated by his family, giving a new lease of life to four patients in Mumbai, Pune and Nashik on Wednesday. The heart was...
View Article61-year-old brain dead gifts life to three
KOZHIKODE: Three patients with liver and kidney failure got the biggest gift of their lifetime after the relatives of 61-year-old Leela, who was declared brain-dead agreed to donate the organs of the...
View ArticleHospital gets 3 cadaver donors in three days
The families of three brain dead patients admitted to Vijaya Group of Hospitals on three consecutive days last week consented to donate their organs, giving a new lease of life to 16 people. At a press...
View ArticleDying to donate, waiting to live
Nagpur: When Laxmi Gupta’s 24-year-old son, Sachin, was declared brain dead in August, she generously offered to donate all his organs. “My husband is a kidney patient and we know the pain of not...
View ArticleIn death, Vinaya of Kerala gave new life to 6 persons
KOCHI: Vinaya Kumar (48) of Kadungalloor, a contract labourer with FACT, found a place in history on Tuesday as his heart was transplanted to a patient in Kottayam medical college, a first in the...
View ArticleIndore creates record with 1st heart transplantation
INDORE: Indore carved a place for itself in country's organ donation map on Friday with doctors performing first heart transplantation procedure of Madhya Pradesh after successfully creating 16th green...
View ArticleDying youth gifts life to 4 across 3 cities
Indore/Delhi/Gurgaon: Traffic on five stretches across Delhi, Gurgaon and Indore made way as paramedics raced against time on Thursday to transport live organs for four critically-ill patients awaiting...
View ArticleOrgan donation gives life to 9, sight to 4 persons at Chandigarh’s PGIMER
Showing exemplary spirit in the midst of their own tragedy, four families who lost their kin in different road accidents helped give a new lease of life to nine critically-ill patients and sight to...
View ArticleMore facilities needed to promote heart transplant
: Three transplants in two city hospitals over the last one month have brought focus on Kozhikode as a heart transplant centre, but more needs to be done in terms of awareness and transportation to...
View ArticleMore Ohioans donating organs
For thousands of Americans who are waiting on a transplant, the donation of an organ can literally be the gift of a lifetime. In 2014, 325 Ohioans shared this gift through organ donation at the time of...
View ArticleShameful organ-donation rates push Hong Kong to excel in transplant surgery
One of Hong Kong's most eminent transplant surgeons is busily sketching on a yellow notepad in the staff canteen on the second floor of Queen Mary Hospital (QMH). "Live donor liver transplant is a lot...
View ArticleLiver travels 210km in three-and-a-half hours
PUNE: Covering a distance of 210km, the liver of a 67-year-old brain-dead man from Nashik was transported to Pune in just three-and-a-half hours on Monday to save the life of a 50-year-old man. The...
View ArticleGreen corridor helps three get a new life
Noida: The kidneys and liver of a 74-year-old man gave a fresh lease of life for three others when a green corriodor was created to transplant the organs on Monday. Pawan Kumar, a resident of Kavi...
View Article18-year-old brain dead girl gifts life to five
KOZHIKODE: An 18-year-old girl, Keerthana, who was declared brain dead following an intracranial hemorrhage, gifts new lease of life to five. Her organs- eyes, liver and kidneys were donated to various...
View ArticleAster Medcity inks MoU with Thomas Jefferson University
Kochi, Nov 19 (IANS) Kochi-based Aster Medcity on Saturday inked an MoU with the US based Thomas Jefferson University which will allow Indian doctors access to the best of global healthcare knowledge...
View ArticleAster Medcity: Top of the range
Aster Medcity, located in Cheranalloor, a suburban town near Kochi, is set on 40 acres of land with an attractive waterfront. It was officially launched on May 6, 2014 and is the fulfilment of a dream...
View ArticleSharing the gift of life
Arunachalam* spent two years consulting a general physician despite knowing that his kidneys were damaged. “When I became too weak and tired to continue with the monthly check-ups and tablets, we...
View Article74-year-old brain-dead man gives lease of life to three
NOIDA: A 74-year-old man saved lives of three people after his organs were harvested and transplanted in them after he was declared brain dead on Monday. Pawan Kumar, a resident of Kavi Nagar in...
View ArticleOne donor, 18 hours and fresh lease of life for three
Bengaluru: Even in death, this 26-year-old nurse did not fail to give the gift of life to those fighting severe illnesses. After suffering a cardio-respiratory arrest and hypoxic brain damage and...
View ArticleKerala: A stretch of paradise
Fancy a good rain? A good time to visit Kerala is during the monsoons when the weather showcases nature in all its glory. My colleague and I took an IndiGo flight from Dubai and arrived in Kozhikode's...
View ArticleTransplants led them back to a normal life
KOCHI: On June 5, 2012, an unconscious Bhavya Sunilkumar (24) was rushed to a super speciality hospital by her family where tests showed that her liver had collapsed due suspected overdose of TB drugs...
View Article“Bound by Brotherhood”
Summary This is what I have to say about the wounds on the body of the said accused. Since he was a hard core criminal, he refused to give any information. It was essential to get that information from...
View ArticleGifts of life: Two families share joy and pain after rare double-lung and...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) Fourteen-year-old Angelynn Luckado's cystic fibrosis ravaged her organs, leading to an extensive hospital stay, an extremely rare and complicated...
View ArticleDual live-donor transplant surgery conducted on 2-year-old
KOCHI: Grandmother donated her kidney and father donated his liver to save a two-year-old girl who weighed 7 kg, making her the smallest child in the world to have successfully undergone dual...
View ArticleYouth dies after boxing bout, gifts life
On September 8, in Surat, Kiven Rameshbhai Gajera (19), was participating in an inter-college boxing tournament. He won the bout, and the referee raised his hand to announce him the winner. But just...
View ArticleBrain-dead boy gives life to three
BENGALURU: On December 12, Kiran Kumar P and seven of his friends ventured out on a joyride in a sedan. But the speed thrill ended in tragedy with the car ramming a roadside tree and leaving Kiran...
View ArticleLegacy Lap honors those who gave gift of life
Media Contact: Ruth Cummins at 601-984-1104 or ricummins@umc.edu. As her three children played around her, Jewell Bennett of Laurel remembered her fourth, a little boy who was with her in spirit Friday...
View ArticleIn death, he gifts new life to four
CHANDIGARH: The family of a 43-year-old resident of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, who was declared brain-dead at PGI, Chandigarh, on August 20, on Wednesday donated his organs to give a second lease of...
View ArticleLife is short but organs can live on
It was a scene straight out of the film Traffic but had a part, which unfolded in the skies high above. An ambulance rushing with a harvested heart towards an air ambulance kept ready for immediate...
View ArticleKidneys, liver donation gives life to 3, corneas go to bank
Pune: The Ruby Hall clinic completed a multiple cadaver organ harvest late on Tuesday night and successfully transplanted two kidneys and the liver, giving a new lease of life to three persons on...
View ArticleBrain-dead welder gives lease of life to 7 people in Kerala
Kochi: Seven people got a new lease of life after the family a 25-year-old man, declared brain-dead after an accident, donated his vital organs. Vishnu G Krishnan, a welder and sole breadwinner of his...
View ArticleDying youth from Indore gifts life to 4 across 3 cities through organ donation
INDORE/DELHI/GURGAON: Traffic on five stretches across Delhi, Gurgaon and Indore made way as paramedics raced against time on Thursday to transport live organs for four critically-ill patients awaiting...
View ArticleDying youth from Indore gifts life to 4 across 3 cities
INDORE/DELHI/GURGAON: Traffic on five stretches across Delhi, Gurgaon and Indore made way as paramedics raced against time on Thursday to transport live organs for four critically-ill patients awaiting...
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