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#MoreToGive: Pledge Your Organs, Help Save Lives

NDTV in partnership with Fortis has launched a new initiative – ‘More To Give’, a campaign focusing on sensitizing the nation about the need of stepping up to donate organs for saving lives.

For The First Time In United States, Woman Gives Birth To A Boy Via Donated Uterus

The world’s first successful uterus transplant was carried out in Sweden on a woman in her mid-thirties born without uterus, after a 61-year old unrelated woman donated her uterus, according to The Lancet

Telangana Sets An Example On National Organ Donation Day 2017. Here’s What The State Is Doing Right

National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) has chosen Telangana’s Jeevandan, a state-run organ donation scheme as the best performing organ donation drive in the country. Here’s what sets the scheme apart

Lack Of Organ Donation In India: Here Is Why Half A Million People Die Annually In India Due To Unavailability Of Organs

India has only 301 hospitals that can perform organ transplantation which means there exist only one hospital equipped for organ transplantation and retrieval for around 43 lakh people. But lack of infrastructure is only one of the issues hampering organ donation in India.

Is Cadaver Donation In North-Eastern States A Distant Reality?

As of date, not even a single Cadaver Donation has taken place in all the eight states of North Eastern region. Though the state performs transplant from living donors, like kidney, lung or cornea however, there is no data to show the number of such organ transplants in the region. Experts say currently, North Eastern regions are at the starting phase of organ donation which is education and awareness