Aster Medcity: Top of the range
Aster Medcity, located in Cheranalloor, a suburban town near Kochi, is set on 40 acres of land with an attractive waterfront. It was officially launched on May 6, 2014 and is the fulfilment of a dream...
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 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 ArticleSharing the gift of life
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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleDying youth gifts life to 4 across 3 cities
Indore/Delhi/Gurgaon: Traffic on five stretches across Delhi, Gurgaon and Indore made way as paramedics raced against time on Thursday to transport live organs for four critically-ill patients awaiting...
View ArticleAir ambulance used for intra-city transplant for first time in B’luru
Bengaluru: An air ambulance was used for the first time in Bengaluru for an intra-city organ transplant on Thursday. The heart of a 45-year-old woman in Apollo Hospital on Bannerghatta Road, was flown...
View ArticleShe died waiting for a kidney, but gifts eyes
KOLKATA: Sutapa Bose's long wait for a kidney ended on Tuesday morning. A sudden cardiac arrest took her away forever from five-year-old daughter Sreshtha and husband Amitabha. But her grieving family...
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 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 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 ArticleOrgans harvested from brain dead man reach airport within 16 minutes
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 everytime a donation happens, it happens only...
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...
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