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“Rally for Life” – A Bikethon for Organ Donation in Tamil Nadu
"Rally for Life" - the motorbike rally, organi sed by MOHAN Foundati on, to promote organ donation awareness was flagged off on 09.09.09 at 09:09:09 a.m. by Thiru T. Rajendran IPS, Commissioner of Po...
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Talk ing Figures - International Donor Rates – 2007 Timing of Request for Organ Donation Crucial For Consent Many more people would agree to donate the organs of a dead relative for ...
Read MoreKidney Federation Initiative by Catholic Priest
Father Davis Chiramel of the Thrissur Archdiocese in Kerala is unique in more ways than one. He has only one kidney and that is because he donated a kidney on 30th September 2008 to 48-year-old Gopin...
Read MoreLongest Surviving Renal Transplant Recipient in India
Mr. Anand Prakash, a 63-year-old male, resident of Bokaro, is the recipient of a live-related allograft. The kidney was donated by his father. The transplant wa s performed at the PGIMER, Ch andigar...
Read MoreMOHAN Foundation’s Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme
MOHAN Foundation has been supporting the cause of deceased organ donation since 1997. Over the years the foundation has been involved in more than 200 successful organ donations and it has found that...
Read MoreOrgan Donation and Tamil Nadu
The current organ donation rate in India has edged up from 0.08 per million to 0.14 per million population. This is essentially due to the three states Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. leadin...
Read MoreRecommendations for Transplantation of Human Organs Act (Amendments) Bill, 2009
To Standing Committee of Rajya Sabha The Govt. of India has asked for suggestions for amendment of Transplantation of Human Organs (THO) Act. The altered bill is waiting to be cleared by the Rajya Sabha and it is hoped that the new bill should be applicable in the next 6 months. The current altered THO act plugs many gaps in the living donation programme but does little for the deceased donation and transplantation programme. There are only three recommendations that have been included to promote the programme- 1. Compulsory appointment of Transplant coordinators to get hospital registration 2. In event of brain death in a hospital – it is mandatory to ask for organs 3. Enlarging the pool of doctors to certify brain death Please refer to link for the amended THO document – http...
Read MoreTamil Nadu Cadaver Transplant Figures (Oct. 2008- Sep 2009)
Hospital Kidney Liver Heart Total GH 14 0 1 15 Stanley Hospital 11 ...
Read MoreTamil Nadu Health Department Government Orders on Organ Donation and Transplantation – Summary
Taking cognizance of the fact that there are a number of brain deaths in the state of Tamil Nadu, which either go unrecognized or undeclared, resulting in lost opportunities for organ donation, the G...
Read MoreTransplant Coordinators Training Course - An Important Milestone in India
The recent announcement by MOHAN Foundation to undertake ‘Transplant Coordinators Training Course’ is likely to change the course of deceased donation programme in the country. So far, th...
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