Dual 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 ArticleOrgans from accident victim saves four lives
A 37-year-old woman from Kasaragod district, who was declared brain dead following a road traffic accident, turned a life-saver as her heart, liver...
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...
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 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 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...
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 ArticleDying youth from Indore gifts life to 4 across 3 cities through organ donation
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 ArticleDying youth from Indore 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 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...
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