18-year-old, Dibya Disha Nanda thrives in Odisha after groundbreaking dual organ transplantBiswambhar Nanda, Dibya Disha's father, shared that while her mother was willing to donate a portion of her liver, doctors deemed it too sm...
19 Jul, 2023, 12.01 PM IST
Family of brain dead 18-month-old girl donates organs, third child in six months to donate organs at AIIMSAIIMS Delhi has in recent past made changes in organ procurement activities under the new leadership as a result of which organ donations h...
13 Nov, 2022, 10.28 AM IST
16-month-old boy, who suffered fatal injury after fall, becomes youngest organ donor at AIIMS-DelhiThe boy, Rishant, suffered a fall and was seriously injured on August 17. He fought for eight days after suffering severe head injury but w...
25 Aug, 2022, 06.47 PM IST
Huge gap in demand, supply of organs for transplant in country: AIIMS chiefAIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria said the AIIMS was working to "very soon" start a lung transplant programme even as it has facilities ava...
27 Nov, 2020, 05.48 PM IST
National Eye Donation Fortnight: Artificial cornea can help patients suffering from vision lossThis has been used by AIIMS in 10 patients over a period of two years.
06 Sep, 2018, 12.22 PM IST
Arun Jaitley shifted out of ICU, recovering after kidney transplantAccording to AIIMS sources, the kidney was donated to the 65-year-old minister by a distant relative, a middle-aged woman. This fell under ...
25 May, 2018, 02.55 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj’s kidney transplant operation at AIIMS successful"The surgery started at 9 AM and ended at 2.30 PM following which the minister has been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the sam...
10 Dec, 2016, 07.25 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj's kidney transplant likely this weekend, donor unrelated"I am in AIIMS because of kidney failure. Presently, I am on dialysis. I am undergoing tests for a kidney transplant. Lord Krishna will ble...
06 Dec, 2016, 07.00 PM IST
Heart transplant scenario in India very dismal: Health expertsWhile an increasing population, including youth, is growing susceptible to heart ailments with changing lifestyle, doctors say the country ...
29 Sep, 2016, 06.33 PM IST
With 16,252 successful transplant, AIIMS celebrates 50 years of gifting visionSince 1965, when AIIM's National Eye Bank was set up, 23,239 corneas have been donated, of which 16,252 have been transplanted successfully
06 Sep, 2016, 10.37 AM IST
How transplant pricing fails the patientRecipients are mostly forced to go to corporate hospitals as there aren't enough transplant centres in public sector hospitals.
10 Aug, 2016, 10.31 AM IST
How cadaver organ donation could turn government hospitals into donor bases that cater to the affluentA govt effort aimed at widening the scale of deceased organ donations inadvertently becomes a stark metaphor of inequality as it could turn...
05 Jun, 2016, 06.33 AM IST
Need movement to encourage organ donations in India: Harsh VardhanPresently, the Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation (ORBO) at AIIMS serves as the nodal centre for organ donation in the country.
10 May, 2015, 06.19 PM IST
AIIMS creates record by giving 1,093 eye transplants in 2014Earlier, most families would reject the possibility of donating the eyes of their relatives citing disfigurement of the body as the reason.
10 Mar, 2015, 11.18 AM IST
Organ Transplants: Indians to get preference over foreignersThe move was triggered by aberrations found in cornea transplant. While the demand for cornea in India is very high, there are very few who...
28 Jan, 2015, 11.06 AM IST
National donation database top priority: Harsh Vardhan, Health MinisterInvolving NGOs, religious and social organizations to spread the message will help us promote organ donation.
13 Aug, 2014, 12.28 PM IST
- AIIMS mulls Facebook route to encourage organ donations
AIIMS plans to take the help of social networking site Facebook to encourage voluntary organ donations.
30 May, 2012, 04.14 PM IST