Maharashtra 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 ArticleOrgans transplanted from 22-year-old Chennai woman
CHENNAI: The organs of a 22-year-old brain dead patient, who was admitted to a private hospital at Ramapuram in Chennai, was harvested and transplanted to those in need of organs...
View ArticleBaby gives life to two in death
KOCHI: Though they are separated and have left the children in an orphanage, the parents of two-year-old girl Saina who was declared brain dead, came together to take the decision to donate her organs-...
View ArticleOrgans transplanted from 22-year-old Chennai woman
CHENNAI: The organs of a 22-year-old brain dead patient, who was admitted to a private hospital at Ramapuram in Chennai, was harvested and transplanted to those in need of organs...
View ArticleOrgan donors give the greatest gift of all: Guest commentary
Thanks to a heroic organ donor, Mason Sommers got to marry the love of his life. He survived his first cardiac arrest at 16. A few years later, after suffering a second cardiac arrest, it was...
View Article16-yr-old Mumbai girl gets a new heart
MUMBAI: A 16-year-old Vikhroli girl became the youngest in the city to get a heart that raced 546km from Indore to a Mulund hospital in under two hours on Sunday. The second inter-state heart...
View Article50-year-old brain dead woman becomes year’s 41st organ donor
As the year nears its end, the city witnessed its 41st cadaver organ donor following the death of a 50-year-old housewife who suffered a stroke and intra cerebral haemorrhage on Monday. The deceased’s...
View ArticleOrgans transplanted from 22-year-old Chennai woman
CHENNAI: The organs of a 22-year-old brain dead patient, who was admitted to a private hospital at Ramapuram in Chennai, was harvested and transplanted to those in need of organs...
View Article78-yr-old brain dead man’s organs help two people
Mumbai: Organs of a 78-year-old man from Bhandup, who was declared brain dead after a cerebral bleed, saved the lives of two organ failure patients on Thursday. The seventh cadaver donation of the year...
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 ArticleChennai donor’s organs save life of Coimbatore man
CHENNAI/ COIMBATORE: The mother of a 27-year-old IT professional declared brain dead on Sunday donated his organs to terminally-ill patients across the state. The beneficiaries include a 31-year-old...
View ArticleGreen corridors make inter-State organ transplants a success
About a dozen doctors located in different parts of the country, but heavily networked in their area of work of organ transplant, on Saturday ensured that a young Indore girl’s heart and liver found...
View ArticleOrgans of Madurai trader give new life to three
MADURAI: The organs harvested from a brain-dead 49-year-old Madurai businessman have given a new lease of life to three people and may benefit one more soon. The organ harvest, which started on Tuesday...
View ArticleAir ambulance ferries organs harvested from brain dead to Kochi
Kochi: In the second instance of use of air ambulance in the state to ferry harvested organs, a chartered aircraft was on Tuesday used to transport the heart and lungs of a 19-year-old brain dead...
View ArticleSruthi, with 1 kidney and rare disease, turns hale & hearty
Kochi: Sruthi, 24, was all tears as she appeared before media on Monday to speak about her heart transplantation. She turned speechless unable to know how to thank the relatives of the donor, the...
View ArticleGreen corridor helps heart to reach airport in nine minutes
TRICHY: The heart from a 23-year-old gypsy (Narikuravar) from Devarayeneri village, was transported to the Trichy International Airport in nine minutes with the help of the city police who set up a...
View ArticleGirish gets a new heart again, doctors term it a miracle
KOCHI: When Palakkad-native Girish Kumar was admitted to Lisie hospital with fever, neither he nor the doctors who gave him a new heart last year would have thought that he would soon be in the...
View ArticleLiver travels 230-km to Pune
PUNE: A third cadaver liver transplant took place in the city on Sunday when a young donor's organ was transported to Ruby Hall Clinic from Aurangabad through a green corridor on a 230-km stretch. The...
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