Report of the joint committee to study the impact of sea level rise on the islands and frame policy and measures to protect these islands dated October 10, 2023. The report was in compliance with the National Green Tribunal order, July 11, 2023. The report recommended undertaking field-based topographic surveys …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Gift of Love Adventure Foundation Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/12/2022. The petitioner (Gift of Love Adventure Foundation) has sought relief in the context of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994. The grievance of the petitioner …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Parthsarthi Bajaj Vs Health Secretary & Others dated 09/09/2022. A minor boy (Parthsarthi Bajaj) has sought the Supreme Court's permission to donate his liver to his critically ill father. The SC noted that "in terms of the statute governing …
Order of the Allahabad High Court in the matter of Ranjan Srivastava Vs Union of India. The petitioner had requested the court for direction to enable and make it lawful for him to exercise "his supreme right regarding his life and body whereby he makes/performs Live Body Donation(Jeevit Deh Daan) …
New Delhi: You may have heard of kidney dialysis but did you know that even the liver can be flushed of its toxins using a similar method? At the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi, the doctors have been using this technology to give a window period …
MIT researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have made a breakthrough that may lead to development of artificial livers for transplantation. The scientists’ attempts at exploiting the ability of the liver to grow in the hope of producing artificial liver tissue for transplantation have repeatedly been stymied. Mature liver cells, known …
London: A woman from Liverpool, who was suffering from an incurable liver cancer, was saved by using a tissue from a cow’s heart to rebuild her liver. Michelle Morgan-Grainger became one of the first to benefit from surgery that used the process known as xenotransplantation — animal organ donation, the …
Fr Paul Madan, director of Little Flower Hospital, Angamaly, inaugurating the organ donation mission and receiving the first agreement letter of hospital administrator P V Thomas. A D Wilson, N V Paulachan, Danty Jose, Saju Chacko and K P Jose are also seen. Rev Dr Paul Madan, the director of …
GUWAHATI, Sept 23 – Even as a few individuals come forward to pledge their organs for donation, the trend in Assam does not appear encouraging. Like some other parts of India, donors willing to pledge their body parts after their death are not many. Fewer bodies are received as promises …
Alappuzha: About 400 residents of a Kerala village have pledged to donate their organs after death. Two members above 18 years from each family of Veliyambra village in Kerala’s Alappuzha district will hand over consent letters for organ donation at a public function on October 24. A group of young …
Want to donate an organ for a “not-so-near” relative in dire need of a transplant? You might have to prove that the recipient and you have been staying together and sharing the same kitchen for 10 years or more. You have to also produce “old photographs showing the donor and …
Getting right donor at right time remains a far cry here as superstitions, non-declaration of brain-dead patients make 1000s die for want of donors As many as 1.25 lakh Indians died in road accidents last year, but only less than 20,000 of them had donated their organs — such as …
Bangalore: Motorists who wish to donate their organs after they die can now carry a sticker in their driving licence, affirming their pledge, thus making it easy to harvest organs in case of fatal accidents or untimely death. Bangalore’s Electronic City RTO and NGO Gift Your Organ are launching the …
Even as the Health Ministry has introduced a series of amendments to the organ transplant Act to give a boost to the national programme, the budget for the National Organ Transplantation Programme (NOTP) has been scaled down to almost 1/10th its original provision. According to the minutes of a June …
Chandigarh: In order to expand the scope of organ transplant and enable more patients to benefit from such procedures, all major military hospitals are being interlinked with the Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplant Authority. This would enable other hospitals to harvest organs from donors instead of just a handful …
In a first, doctors in Sweden have transplanted into the body of 10-year-old girl a vein grown in the laboratory from her own stem cells. The core team that performed the procedure was led by Dr Suchitra Holgersson, a transplant medicine specialist originally from Mumbai, and included four other doctors …
Donate an organ, give someone a new life – Preeti” She joined AIIMS as a young data entry operator, and around the age of 26, she became one of the first and youngest recipient of a donated heart in 2001 — from a 14-year-old boy. Today, over a decade later, …
The past quarter century has witnessed rapid advancement in the field of transplantation medicine. Various methods have been used which facilitate organ preservation, decrease organ rejection, improve organ matching, and, in general, augment the success rates of transplantation.
Chicago: It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days — even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants. Recently in Chicago, in what is believed to be the first documented case of its kind in the US, a transplanted kidney that was failing was removed from a …
The much awaited heart transplant programme at the region’s tertiary care institute, PGIMER, has moved a step closer to reality with the head of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (CTVS) department set to undergo training for the purpose in the USA . Even though the Post Graduate Institute Of Medical Education …
To give a boost to the organ donation programme in (PGIMER), authorities are thinking of setting up a network for organ sharing with public sector institutes. A network between hospitals for sharing donated organs on the basis of urgency exists in South India and in Western countries like USA. In …
