India to soon roll out drones for transporting organs, currently, the policy is being framed to figure out the logistics and create drones ports at the hospitals in bid to save lives and improve organ donation rate in the country

The birth of a healthy baby girl following the uterus transplant from a deceased woman has established the treatment of uterine infertility without living donor surgery

Getting an organ transplant is a major change in a person’s life that comes with a lifelong challenge of avoiding rejection of the new organ by one’s own body and at times involves supressing the very immune system that is meant to be the safety net against diseases

The heart, that saved the life of a young man suffering from Dilated Cardiomyopathy for a year, was donated by the family of a brain-dead patient in Surat which was transported to Mumbai with the help of green corridor

Tamil Nadu continues to be the best-performing state in terms of Organ Donation, for the fourth time in a row

While talking about the need for awareness about organ donation in India, Dr. Haresh Dodeja, Consultant Neurologistat Fortis Hospital, in Mumbai said that the organs donation statistics in India is dismal as lakhs of people die every year waiting for an organ

Actor Raima Sen lends support to NDTV-Fortis #MoreToGive Organ Donation Walkathon in Kolkata

Actor Rajkummar Rao lends his support to NDTV-Fortis #MoreToGive Organ Donation Walkathon in Gurugram (Gurgaon)

Organ donation is a life giving process and a decision to donate organs can not only change someone’s life, but also have an impact on people associated with the individual waiting for an organ

The first skin bank in India – National Burns Centre was commissioned on October 5, 2001 in Mumbai and for a long time it was the only skin bank in India until Ganga Hospital Skin Bank in 2015 came into existence, promoting the cause of skin donation

The girl was declared brain dead on Saturday and the police enabled the convoy to transport the organs for 170 kms in two hours by creating a green corridor through four districts

Skin, the largest human organ which protects us from heat, cold, UV rays, and bacterias and enables us to have our sense of touch is capable of mending itself from regular wear and tear, except when it is badly burnt or damaged and requires skin transplant

A 23-year-old road accident victim donated his liver and kidney to a 45-year-old male diabetic patient in an organ transplantation surgery that went on for more than 11 hours

A Green Corridor was created in New Delhi between two hospitals on Sunday enabling the harvesting team to cover a distance of 3.6 kilometers in 3.28 minutes

In the year 2000, Pramod Laxman Mahajan, a farmer from Pune saved the life of his friend’s brother by donating one of his kidneys