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“Celebrate the Joy of Giving Life” - Annual workshop for transplant coordinators in New Delhi
MOHAN Foundation and NATCO (National Association of Transplant Coordinators) organized its 4th Annual Transplant Coordinators Workshop on October 8th & 9th, 2011 at Magnolia Hall, India Ha...
Read MoreBloodless Heart Transplant for young boy
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio, USA, performed its first successful bloodless heart transplant on a 6-year-old boy, Andrew Craver, in December 2010. Mark Galantowicz, MD, FACS, chief of Card...
Read MoreDr. Harun Ur Rashid from Bangladesh visits MOHAN Foundation
Dr. Harun Ur Rashid, President, Kidney Foundation Bangladesh visited MOHAN Foundation, Chennai on 1st October 2011. Dr. Rashid has been spearheading a dramatic change in the lives of patients ...
Read MoreExecutive Director visits Central Health Education Unit, Hong Kong
On a recent trip to Hong Kong, Ms. Pallavi Kumar, Executive Director (Delhi-NCR) visited the Central Health Education Unit to learn more about the country's deceased organ donation program. She me...
Read MoreEye of the Tiger
Many celebrities in India have lent their voice to the cause of 'eye donation' but none have translated their commitment into action, if and when an opportunity arose in their lives, when they l...
Read MoreFirst ABO Kidney Transplantation in India
India's first ever kidney transplant surgery between patients of incompatible blood groups was conducted at a hospital in th Hyderabad on 19 July 2011. Doctors at the Kamineni Super Specialty Hospita...
Read MoreFriendship Forum of India honours the Raghurams
On 20th July, 2011, Friendship Forum of India, New Delhi, honoured Mr. K. Raghuram , Convenor – MOHAN Foundation, Andhra Pradesh, with the "Bharat Excellence Award" for outstanding service to s...
Read MoreGift Life - Hyderabad
The Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India in collaboration with MOHAN Foundation organized a series of events on organ donation awarene...
Read MoreHeart Transplants in Karnataka and New Delhi
M.S. Sandeep, 16, became the youngest person to undergo a heart transplant in Karnataka after doctors were able to use the heart from a 25-year old man who became brain dead following an accident in ...
Read MoreInternational World's first successful uterus transplant performed in Turkey
Derya Sert, who was born without a uterus, became the first woman in the world to receive a womb from a deceased donor. The operation was performed successfully on August 9, 2011 at Akdeniz Universit...
Read MoreNew Generation Heart Pump
A 14-year-old Canadian teenager needing a heart pump can now go to her school along with her friends thanks to the next generation heart pumps that can be carried around in a purse. Kolby Zanie...
Read MoreSamsaara - Chennai
The third event also called 'Samsaara – The Circle of Life' was held in Chennai at Rajiv Gandhi Govt. General Hospital on 3 rd September 2011 in collaboration with Cadaver Transplant Programme...
Read MoreSamsaara - Puducherry
The second event 'Samsaara – The Circle of Life' was held in Puducherry at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) on 29th August 2011. Dr. Dili...
Read MoreTransplant Coordinators' Training Programme - Post Graduate Diploma by IGNOU
MOHAN Foundation's one year Post Graduate Diploma course for transplant coordinators commenced in August this year and the first batch of 22 students from nursing, medical and social work background...
Read MoreTransplant Coordinators' Training Programme in Bangalore
MOHAN Foundation in partnership with Zonal Coordination Committee in Karnataka for Transplantation (ZCCK) and Gift your Organ Foundation conducted a successful five-day residential training prog...
Read MoreWorld's First Double Leg Transplant
Spanish surgeons have performed the world's first double-leg transplant on a man whose legs were amputated above the knee after an accident. Surgeons operated through the night on the ma...
Read MoreWorld's First Synthetic Organ Transplant
The world's first transplant of a synthetic windpipe has been successfully carried out by a team of surgeons. On June 9, 2011 a 36-year-old man suffering from late stage tracheal cancer, received a n...
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