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42-Year-Old Woman’s Heart, Other Organs Give Life To Four

A 42-year-old woman from Mandsaur has given a new lease of life to four persons after she was declared brain dead

This 67-Year-Old Is On A Padyatra To Talk About Organ Donation

Sunil Deshpande is on a mission to educate and sensitise the masses about organ donation. The 67-year-old’s plan is to walk through over 45 villages and towns across Maharashtra to inform people about the cause and get them to pledge their organs.

Worth It? A Faster Transplant But A Kidney With Hepatitis C

A bold experiment is giving some patients a chance at cutting years off their wait for a kidney transplant if they agree to a drastic-sounding option — getting an organ almost sure to infect them with hepatitis C.

Skin Transplantation Performed In Government Hospital For The First Time

A ‘cadaveric skin transplantation’ has been successfully performed at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research here, claimed to be the first to be performed in a government hospital.

50% Of Donated Eyes Going To Waste: Health Ministry

More than 2.5 lakh blind people in India could regain eyesight if majority of the Indian hospitals start conducting eye transplants, showed statistics recently released by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).