In first bilateral hand transplant in north India, dying patient saves four livesMeena Mehta, Admin. Head of New Greenfields School, Kalkaji, demonstrated selfless care for others through posthumous organ donation. Her o...
20 Jan, 2024, 09.34 PM IST
Organs of brain dead woman help save lives of four people: Delhi hospitalHer liver was transplanted into a 58-year-old man and a kidney into another patient at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. The remaining organs wer...
28 May, 2021, 05.11 PM IST
Varun Gandhi to bring private member bill for registration of all adult citizens as organ donorsThe 'Donation and Transplantation of Human Organ Bill, 2020' is likely to be introduced by Varun Gandhi in the upcoming monsoon session of ...
13 Aug, 2020, 02.21 PM IST
Dera donated 14 bodies to UP medical college without death certificatesA Union health ministry note has mentioned as many as 14 bodies being sent from the Dera headquarters in Sirsa to GCRG Institute of Medical...
09 Sep, 2017, 10.26 AM IST
MPs can set example by pledging to donate organs: Shashi TharoorDuring question hour, Tharoor wondered whether Speaker Sumitra Mahajan might want to encourage the members to set an example by "pledging o...
28 Jul, 2017, 05.59 PM IST
IMA launches campaign, to send text alerts to its members for organ donationAccording to data, 200,000 people are wait-listed for kidneys in India and 30,000 await a liver, legal donations meet about 3 to 5 per cent...
12 Jan, 2017, 02.28 PM IST
Inter-ministerial committee set up to promote organ donationsThe government has also set up an apex national level organisation namely NOTTO in New Delhi to promote retrieval of organs and tissues, he...
22 Jul, 2016, 07.41 PM IST
How you can save your skin from burnsNearly 1.4 lakh Indians die of burns every year. Seven skin banks put together get just 600 donations that could save them.
27 Jun, 2016, 10.17 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
Organ donation queries up post PM Narendra Modi's 'Mann ki Baat': J P NaddaThe importance of organ donation has been highlighted by the Prime Minister in his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio programme in October and November.
15 Dec, 2015, 05.59 PM IST
Govt taking steps to increase donation of cadaver organsUnion Minister JP Nadda said an Inter-Ministerial Coordination Committee has been set up to coordinate various activities for promotion of ...
11 Dec, 2015, 02.33 PM IST
200 villagers express desire for cadaver donation in KeralaAround 200 people, belonging to various age groups, caste and educational background, will hand over the consent letter to donate their org...
14 Sep, 2015, 04.15 PM IST
Air ambulance ferries organs harvested from brain deadCadaver donation is steadily catching up in Kerala with vital organs of 138 brain dead persons having been harvested in the last four years.
11 Aug, 2015, 04.10 PM IST
Cadaver donation increasing in Kerala as people shed inhibitionsThe number of donors has crossed the 36 mark since January this year and it is expected to go upto around 70 in the coming months.
09 Aug, 2015, 02.22 PM 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
- PIL in HC seeks policy to curb illegal kidney trade
The Delhi High Court was on Tuesday approached by a social activist seeking a transparent policy on kidney transplants to check the menace ...
12 Feb, 2008, 09.32 PM IST
- Cadaver organ transplants fail to make a mark here
Despite existence of a comprehensive law on organ transplantation, India seems to have failed to make a mark in cadaveric organ donation an...
06 Nov, 2006, 12.13 AM IST