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 …
Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane has stated that the State government proposes to introduce Organ Transplant Act in the coming monsoon assembly session and also amend Public Health Act. He was speaking after inaugurating the Rotary Eye Bank of Goa at Vrundavan Hospital & Research Centre at Peddem-Mapusa. The health minister …
chemical sciences Sugars preserve organs longer Growth of ice crystals during organ preservation at low temperatures leaves them unfit for transplantation. Several carbohydrates have the ability to prevent the growth of ice crystals. This ability correlates with the hydration number which is the number of water molecules bound to one …
Twenty specialists helped in 16-hour operation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital The proud team: Shourya Verma, with Dr. A. S. Soin (left), and Siya Thakur, with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
Problems associated with implanting animal organs in humans had seemed insurmountable, but new research could soon bring about the first clinical trials.
By YOJNA GUSAI NEW DELHI Nov. 20: If the proposed amendments to the Transplantation of Human Organs (THO) Act, 1994, are approved, foreign nationals will be barred from acquiring organs from Indian donors. The committee, which is reviewing the present act for possible amendments, is of the view that this …
A debate on the sale of kidneys has thrown up the idea of a regulated system of compensation, but opponents have slammed it, saying such a system would not hold in poorer countries like India. Writing in the British Medical Journal, Mr Arthur Matas, of the University of Minnesota, suggested …
The most commonly donated organ is the eye. The other organs often used in India are the heart and the liver. A beneficial fallout of my article "Spare a thought for the donor' in The-Hindu of April 15 has been the interest it aroused in cadaver organ donations. I have …
If things go as planned, transplantation of liver would be a reality in Kolkata within a couple of months. After Mumbai, Kolkata would be the second city in the country to facilitate transplantation in a state-run hospital at a much cheaper cost. The state health department has decided to initiate …
Two government orders issued last month clarify procedures for declaring brain death and make it mandatory for hospitals in the State to adopt them The government orders clarify several procedures that are ambiguous in the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994. For instance, it gives the procedure for performing apnea …
Chennai's Siddharth has become the country's youngest patient to successfully undergo a complete liver transplant. Doctors at Delhi's Sir Gangaram Hospital, who conducted the operation on 11-month-old Siddharth, say he beat the earlier record held by Pakistani national Shreyar. A resident of Karachi, Shreyar was one-year-old when he underwent the …
It is a grim dilemma: spend years more on a kidney transplant waiting list, and possibly die before you ever reach the top, or accept a diseased organ that has been patched up. With the wait for healthy kidneys standing at two to six years in the US and Australia, …
“When I tell my colleagues I have not urinated for more than three years, they think I am making excuses to shirk work. They do not understand how painful dialysis is. It leaves me terribly weak. But then I cannot afford to miss work. My monthly expense on medication and …
Most organs can be transplanted. In theory, if your heart, liver, pancreas, lungs, kidneys and intestines do not work, you can get them from donors. Other than these organs, tissues like cornea, skin, bone and bone marrow can also be sourced from donors. Surgeons have also tried to transplant body …
Mobile and extremely useful "I understand it is not easy for the living to donate a kidney; but then why is the government not encouraging transplants from cadavers,' asks esrd patient Nozeer H Canteenwala. This aspect of the problem has been obscured in the media spotlight over illegal organ trade. …
In an effort to curb illegal organ trade and also overcome the massive shortage of organs for transplant, the health ministry is mulling a proposal to introduce the concept of
An additional 1.50 lakh new patients are added to the existing lot every year 5 to 7 p.c. get some form of treatment, rest die without any definite healthcare intervention High cost of treatment, non-availability of donors major limitations for successful treatment NEW DELHI: Each year an additional 1.50 lakh …
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) would soon be the second hospital in the Capital after AIIMS to have a heart transplant facility. The required registration for the set up has already been granted to the hospital by the director general health services recently and the unit is expected to start …
As the government contemplates amending the Organ Transplantation Act in the wake of the kidney racket, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Saturday said the present laws were sufficient but they need to be implemented properly. "Sufficient laws are there, they just need to be implemented properly,' Mr. Balakrishnan …
The investigations into the activities of, and the prosecution of, the kidney doctor Amit Kumar promise to be interesting since there are so many loopholes in the law and unknown aspects of the case itself. India's law on transplants, the Transplantation of the Human Organs Act (TOHO), is of relatively …
Following unearthing of the kidney transplant racket in neighbouring Gurgaon, a Delhi-based social activist has filed a public interest litigation in the Delhi High Court seeking directions for, among other things, a review of the Human Organ Transplant Act, 1994, to enlarge the scope of prospective kidney donors to check …
