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Best Transplant Coordinator’s Award
Niveditha Sankaran, Transplant coordinator from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, received the Best Transplant Coordinator’s award from Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation, during th...
Read More“Learn, Share, Cherish” – Annual Transplant Coordinators’ workshop held at Hyderabad
A national two-day Annual Transplant Coordinators’ Workshop was organized on 20 th and 21 st August 2010 by MOHAN Foundation in Hyderabad with the support of the Navajbai Ratan Tata...
Read More100 Deceased Organ Donors from Tamil Nadu
With the start of the Tamil Nadu Organ Sharing (TNOS) network, the number of deceased organ donors and organ sharing under TNOS has been documented from October 2008. July 4 th 2010 saw a...
Read MoreFree Paper Session at the Annual Workshop for Transplant Coordinators
Delegates at the Annual Transplant Coordinators’ Workshop 2010 participated in a free paper session on various topics (public education, hospital contact programme, liaison with government, exp...
Read MoreIn the News- International
Teenager gets first permanent artificial heart A 15-year-old Italian boy has become the first child patient in the world to be permanently implanted with an artificial heart. The boy under...
Read MoreKey factors in the success of the Tamil Nadu model of deceased organ donation
As an NGO involved in the cadaver (deceased) organ donation programme since 1997, MOHAN Foundation (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) has had the opportunity to interact with the public, the govern...
Read MoreLetter from a Braveheart…
Excerpts from the last letter written by late Capt. Vijayendra Thapar of the Indian Army to his family, before he laid down his life for the Nation. – Contributed by Dr. Ravi Wankhede, Na...
Read MoreMOHAN Foundation Organises Organ-o-Cultural 2010 to commemorate Organ Donors
MOHAN Foundation Organises Organ-o-Cultural 2010 to commemorate Organ Donors In an attempt to raise organ donation awareness within the city, MOHAN Foundation organized ‘Organ-o-Cultural 2...
Read MoreMore Kidney Transplants done in elderly patients now
A study appearing in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ( CJASN ) examined whether elderly patients with kidney failure have better or worse access to transplants ...
Read MoreOrgans of four-day-old infant donated in Hyderabad
Kishore Kumar and Hymavathi are an example of exemplary courage and generosity. They donated the eyes and heart valves of their four-day-old infant daughter after she passed away. The baby was premat...
Read MorePanel discussion at the Annual Transplant Coordinators’ Workshop
The topic for the Panel Discussion was “What can we do to improve the deceased donor programme?” Though we in India have a huge pool of brain dead donors, many potential deceased don...
Read MoreProcess for whole body donations simplified
The Tamil Nadu government has simplified the process for donating the whole body after one’s demise to a medical college. Whole body donations can be made to any tertiary hospital or teaching h...
Read MoreSkin Donation pledge by actors Paresh Rawal and Swaroop Sampat
Actor Paresh Rawal and his wife Swaroop Sampat have decided to donate their skin. The couple has signed up with the National Burn Institute’s (NBI) skin bank and have been designated as ambassa...
Read MoreSTOP PRESS: Andhra Pradesh achieves a Milestone in Deceased Organ Donation
MOHAN Foundation helped the deceased organ donation programme in Andhra Pradesh achieve a milestone in the first week of November 2010. Venkatesam, a businessman, who was declared brain dead be...
Read MoreStudy on using kidneys from Hepatitis C positive donors
Can kidneys from hepatitis C positive donors be used for transplantation or not? Researchers at Johns Hopkins University studied data from more than 93,000 deceased kidney donors between 1995 and 200...
Read MoreTeenager gets first permanent artificial heart
A 15-year-old Italian boy has become the first child patient in the world to be permanently implanted with an artificial heart. The boy underwent a 10-hour operation in September 2010 and was d...
Read MoreWorld’s First Hi-Tech Pancreas Transplant
For the first time in the world Italian doctors have carried out a robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant. This operation "creates new prospects for the treatment of diabetics," because its "mini...
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