Air ambulance, green corridor facilitate quick transfer of organs to Chennai
Madurai: For the first time in the district, an air ambulance was chartered to airlift a heart to Chennai. Thanks to the authorities who set up a green corridor, it reached the recipient in a record...
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 ArticleAir ambulance facilitates quick transfer of heart to Chennai
MADURAI: For the first time in the district, an air ambulance was chartered to airlift a heart to Chennai. Thanks to the authorities who set up a green corridor, it reached the recipient in a record...
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 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 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 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 ArticleHarvested organs from Madurai reach Chennai in double quick time
While cadaver transplantation has become fairly common in the State, which has a better donation rate in the country, what must be remembered is that every time a donation happens, it is only because...
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 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 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 ArticleFirst heart transplant in Rajasthan, 32-year-old farmer recipient
JAIPUR: A farmer has become the first person to receive a heart transplant in the state. The state has created a history of sorts by saving lives of four persons through one cadaver organ donation. Two...
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 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...
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