74-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 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 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 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 ArticleDad's liver, grandma's kidney save two-year-old
KOCHI: A two-year-old girl with a life-threatening condition, and who weighed just seven kilograms, successfully underwent a dual live-donor transplant after the infant's...
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 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 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 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 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 ArticleAir 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 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 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...
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