Foreigner in Chennai gets heart from Coimbatore
CHENNAI: Six organs of a 26-year-old web designer, who lost his life in a bike accident near Coimbatore, were donated on Friday morning. His heart, kidneys and liver were transported in record time to...
View ArticleIn death, 29-year-old gifts life to three
MUMBAI: A 29-year-old Thane resident became the 20th cadaver donor in the city this year, giving the gift of life to three patients with endstage organ disease on Wednesday evening, said officials of...
View ArticleFirst-ever organ transplant at govt hospital in State
Victoria Hospital became the first state-run health care centre in Karnataka to perform an organ transplant. The liver of a 42-year-old brain-dead patient was transplanted into a 38-year-old man. The...
View ArticleBrain dead Kerala boy's heart, lungs brought to Chennai for yet another...
KOCHI/CHENNAI: The heart and lungs of a brain dead 19-year-old boy was airlifted from Kochi to Chennai on Tuesday afternoon, to be transplanted to a patient at Fortis Malar Hospital here. A Deccan...
View ArticleOrgans of brain-dead girl harvested, save six lives
PUDUCHERRY: The vital organs of a 26-year-old brain-dead woman were harvested and transplanted successfully into six needy patients by different teams of doctors at hospitals in the Union territory of...
View ArticleBrain dead Kerala boy's heart, lungs airlifted to Chennai for yet another...
KOCHI/CHENNAI: The heart and lungs of a brain dead 19-year-old boy was airlifted from Kochi to Chennai on Tuesday afternoon, to be transplanted to a patient at Fortis Malar Hospital here. A Deccan...
View ArticleThree cadaver donations in 72 hours offer ray of hope
MUMBAI: The city witnessed a record three cadaver donations within 72 hours, benefiting nine patients battling end stage organ failure. The donations came as a boon for two youngsters with acute liver...
View ArticleDeceased donor organ donation falters
At least one brain death occurs every day in the intensive care units (ICUs) of Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) here. Yet, in the past 10 months, the number of deceased donor organ donations...
View ArticleThe heart skips no beat
Matters of the heart can seldom wait. On the night of June 26, T. Venkata Sai Manohar, 24, was declared brain dead at a hospital in Hyderabad. A team from Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Chennai flew out...
View ArticleKochi traffic halts to let beating heart pass
Kochi, Aug 11 (IANS) A siren-blaring ambulance carrying the harvested heart and lungs of a brain-dead young man breezed through otherwise choked roads and reached the airport in no time, all thanks to...
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 Article10-year-old Kazakh girl receives Kerala boy’s heart, lungs
CHENNAI: A 10-year-old girl from Kazakhstan who had been waiting for several months at a city hospital in the hope that she would receive a heart-lung transplant before it was too late on Tuesday...
View ArticleIndore creates two green corridors to transport liver and kidney to save two...
INDORE: Two separate green corridors were created on Sunday in Indore for the speedy transportation of a human liver and kidney of a brain-dead patient to save two different lives. One corridor was...
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 ArticlePakistani boy gets a heart from Hyderabad
A 10-year-old boy of Pakistani origin living in Dubai was transplanted with a heart that came all the way from Hyderabad at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, here on Tuesday. According to K.M. Cherian,...
View ArticlePakistani boy gets heart from Hyderabad
A 10-year-old boy of Pakistani origin living in Dubai was transplanted with a heart that came all the way from Hyderabad at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, here on Tuesday. According to K.M. Cherian,...
View ArticleThe journey of a young heart from Hyderabad to Pakistan
A 14-year-old boy from Pakistan was transplanted with a heart that came all the way from Hyderabad at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, here on Tuesday. According to K.M. Cherian, chairman and CEO of the...
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 ArticleSuresh Iyer’s gift speaks volumes
Kochi: He is dead, but his liver, kidney and eyes live on. He was deaf and mute. But his vital organs speak up for him now. When 43-year-old Suresh Iyer from Kottayam, was declared brain dead after...
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,...
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