Gifts 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...
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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 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 ArticleFamily who turned their grief into the gift of life
Before three-year-old Georgia Fieldsend was taken into the operating theatre, her mother Ilse removed the tape from Georgia's mouth that kept the tubes to her life-support machine in place. She put her...
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 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 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 ArticleBrain-dead child's family donates his liver, kidneys, too
Yatharth Aradhya, the brain-dead child whose heart was harvested and transplanted successfully on another toddler in Chennai on Friday, has brought cheers to other families, too. For Yatharth’s family...
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...
View ArticleChennai police create two green corridors to transplant organs flown in from...
CHENNAI: The heart and pancreas of a teenager, who was declared brain dead at a hospital in Coimbatore, were flown to Chennai on Wednesday for transplant. The heart was transplanted in a 14-year-old...
View ArticleHeart from Coimbatore to be airlifted to Kochi
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The heart of a brain-dead patient from Coimbatore will be airlifted to Kochi for transplant. The heart of 17-year-old Nirmal Kumar hailing from Erode who suffered brain death after...
View ArticleIndian Air Force flies organs from Pune to Delhi for transplant
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) recently put one of its special aircrafts, an Embraer, for a unique operation — transporting a kidney and a liver from Pune to Delhi. It was used to save the life...
View ArticleForeigner 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 ArticleIndore stops again to harvest lives for India
Indore: Traffic on Indore roads came to a grinding halt once again on Thursday to create a green corridor to facilitate transport of organs harvested from an 18-year-old brain-dead youth, who gave a...
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 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 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 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,...
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