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BENGALURU: NU Hospitals, Shivamogga, has performed the first cadaveric kidney transplant in the Malnad region, marking a significant step towards decentralising advanced healthcare services. The donor organ was retrieved from a brain-dead patient at Father Muller Hospital after the family consented to organ donation. The recipient, a 71-year-old patient with a history of ischemic heart disease, underwent a complex and high-risk procedure that lasted several hours overnight. The surgery was led ...Read More >
Heart transplant patients in the United States typically spend months waiting for a donated organ. But Kayoko Hira was not a typical patient. Mrs. Hira, the wife of a hotel magnate in Japan, flew to the United States in September 2021, went to the University of Chicago Medical Center and, within days, got a new heart from an American teenager who had died. Soon after, The New York Times found, a charity run by her husband made a donation to a nonprofit group led by the heart surgeon's wife. It ...Read More >
Jaipur: Surgeons at SMS Hospital Saturday performed their first live liver transplant -- that is, a liver donated by a living donor -- with help from experts from a private hospital in Delhi.Previously, the hospital has conducted liver transplants utilising organs from patients declared brain dead. Hospital officials announced they have now the necessary capabilities for live liver transplants, expanding options for patients in need of this life-saving procedure.A team from the private hospital ...Read More >
Hyderabad/New Delhi: Telangana has been honoured with a prestigious national award for achieving the highest organ donation rate in India. According to a senior official, in 2024, Telangana recorded an organ donation rate of 4.88 donors per million population (pmp), which significantly surpassed the national average of 0.8 pmp. The award was presented during a felicitation ceremony held in New Delhi as part of the 15th Indian Organ Donation Day celebrations, organised by the National Organ and T ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1995, which regulates the commercialisation of human organs for transplantation, imposes strict limitations on the availability of organs from living donors, contributing to recent transplant fraud cases, such as the Alakananda Hospital scandal. Following the enactment of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, by the Centre, undivided Andhra Pradesh adopted it in 1995, and Telangana continued with the same legislation after i ...Read More >
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