It’s going to take years for the world to come to grips with the impact of COVID-19. Moving slightly away from the immediate effect of the disease, there are numerous medical issues that have arisen during the pandemic. Shortages in hospital facilities and medical personnel are most prominent among them. This has, in turn, led …
For many, life continues to be hard as they wait on the organ donation transplant waiting list. Not being able to access a life-saving organ transplant is not the case the entirety of the time. The family of a brain-dead man in Maharashtra gave doctors the go-ahead to donate his organs, offering hope to patients …
The Madras Medical Mission College in the Tamil Nadu state capital Chennai performed a kidney transplant for a 41-year-old man – the third time he has undergone such a procedure. Reports indicate that the man, who is said by surgeons to be recovering well, experienced kidney failure aged twelve and subsequently underwent his first kidney …
Few would dispute that the COVID-19 pandemic is a time where feel-good stories are beneficial for the mind and soul. The story of Nikhit Nischhal is, in a number of respects, such a story. The teenage boy, at the top of his class in school, is to avail a kidney transplant courtesy of the Jharkhand …
India is facing a shortage of heart donors – in what comes as bad news for its many citizens who are in need of a life-saving heart transplant. “Heart transplant remains the gold standard for the treatment of end-stage heart failure,” said a study published in 2017. Data as to the prevalence of heart failure …
The states of Goa and Odisha have each seen new developments in the push for organ donation. The former saw a registry launched by the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) whilst the latter saw the launch of thirteen new organ harvesting centres. The organ harvesting centres in Odisha have been set up in …
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Senior government officials have spoken out in recent days about the importance of organ donation in India, a country sorely lacking donors. The issue has been highlighted by both Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu. An estimated one million people in India are experiencing end-stage organ failure, yet just …
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