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Prakash Acharya | Photo Credit: Supplied photo Families of two brain dead persons have donated their kidneys, lungs, liver, and retinas to the needy. The kidneys of 50-year-old Prakash Acharya, a resident of Kotekar, were retrieved at the Government Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru on Saturday and soon after transplanted to patients at KMC Hospital in…
Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy inaugurating the Kidney Symposium 2026 on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Yashoda Hospitals, HITEC City branch has performed more than 400 kidney transplant surgeries since the launch of its kidney transplant programme, the hospital said on Saturday (August 29). The milestone was highlighted at ‘Kidney…
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Doctors stress the need to develop regional centres in the government sector to focus on a single organ transplant. The Government Stanley Medical College Hospital has a liver transplant unit. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM The contribution of government hospitals to the organ donor pool has increased gradually over the past four years in…
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“The organ donation rate in India continues to be low”, says Dr Anil Kumar. (Representational) New Delhi: The Centre has asked states to monitor cases of brain stem deaths in ICU patients, saying poor identification and certification of such cases is keeping the organ donations rate at low levels in the country. The advisory to…
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The soldier was found brain dead at a hospital here on March 20. (Representative Pic) Bhubaneswar: The family members of a CRPF soldier in Odisha’s Khurda district on Monday donated his heart and liver following his brain death. A doctor in the private hospital where he died said the two organs were carried to Kolkata…
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The man who lost his hands in a train accident has got a bilateral hand transplant New Delhi: A painter who lost both hands in a tragic accident is about to hold his brush again, thanks to the surgical excellence of a group of Delhi doctors and a woman’s organ donation pledge that transformed four…
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Daily Quiz | On World Organ Donation Day File photo of Isabelle Dinoire, the woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant on November 27, 2005. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Which nation has the higher organ donor rate in the world? It reportedly had a donor rate of 46.7 per million…