Pune witnessed four kidney transplants, two liver transplants and one heart transplant on Thursday (June 6), at three different hospitals in the city. A green corridor was created between Pune and Nashik for transporting the organs of a 35-year-old brain-dead road accident victim from Nashik
A woman in her late twenties who was suffering from cardiomypathy, a disease that affects heart muscles, has got a new lease of life after she underwent a heart transplant in Pune. The same disease had earlier taken the life of her sister who could not find a heart transplant donor. Surekha Joshi, transplant […]
Reena, who underwent a heart transplant in 2009, will compete in women’s 100m (30-39 years category) and hopes to see more organ recipients from the country play competitive sports
Life begins with organ transplant surgery – this is the message Reena Raju is set to spread when she represents India in the World Transplant Games 2017 in Spain later this year. The Bengaluru resident will compete in women’s 100m (30-39 years category) along with badminton mixed doubles player Balveer Singh (a kidney recipient). “I […]
Twenty four-year-old Minocherhomji shares her life-changing experience of getting a heart from a donor, three years ago. She says her new life was a gift from the donor. Minocherhomji now works in creating awareness about the organ donation and how it saves many lives from getting destroyed
Organ donation not only gifts a life to the recipient, but it also saves a parent from the pain of losing a child, it prevents a child from growing up without a parent, it adds years of happiness to couples whose time together would otherwise have been cruelly cut short. It is the ultimate gift […]
While Wednesday’s heart transplant was the first in house transplant in Ruby where both the donor and recipient were from Ruby Hall, Friday’s heat transplant would be fifth in the last three months
After performing a successful first in house cadaver heart transplant on Wednesday, Ruby hall in Pune will perform city’s fifth cadaver heart transplant on Friday (and its second in house heart transplant). With two heart transplants in a week, doctors are optimistic for increase in the number in vital organ transplants in the city in […]
After the surgery, it took her three months to step outside of her home, Sweden is now aiming to pursue BMS and start working soon to help her parents financially. She now has no more health restrictions, she is living a normal life
City’s first paediatric heart transplant patient, Sweden D’Souza, scores 63.38 per cent in HSC exam. The Vikhroli resident had underwent heart transplant in January 2016 after she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy — an end-stage heart disease. “It is a moment of pride for us. She was not able to attend school for more than […]
The scarcity of various organs has posed to be an enormous barrier from saving many lives today. According to Government estimates, the need of organ transplants for new cases of organ failure every year is 2 lakh for kidneys; 30,000 for liver; and 50,000 for heart
Fortis Centre for Heart Failure and Transplant at Fortis Malar Hospital successfully conducted 150 heart transplants in Chennai recently, creating a record. This is the first time any hospital has performed this number of heart transplants in South Asia. The centre has sustained an excellent outcome with one year survival rate which is over 90% […]
The donor for this woman was Ravi Devani a marketing executive who met with an accident in Surat on being diagnosed as brain dead, after doctors counselling the family they were willing to donate his organs so other got a lease of new life
A Ukrainian woman received a heart within three days of registration in India, and her donor has not only revived her life, but has also given a ray of hope to five other people. The Surat donor was Ravi Devani, a marketing executive in Ahmedabad, met with an accident. Due to injury in head and […]
The patient was diagnosed with post-partum cardiomyopathy. It is life-threatening heart disease that occurs during pregnancy or immediately after delivery. She had a very low heart pumping power she underwent double valve surgery in February 17
Monday’s heart transplant was not among the usual ones for Mumbai’s Fortis Hospital. The patient, a 27-year-old woman from Ukraine - is the first foreigner to get a heart transplant done in Mumbai. The woman had come to the city three days back with the hope of registering herself for a heart transplant. Luckily, within […]
Doctors say this is the first time in India that a donor organ has covered more than 2,000km where the government as well as private entities came forward and ensured that the heart is transplanted in record time of four hours from the time of heart retrieval
Delhi-Chennai Hospitals created history in India’s organ transplant chapter after heart of a young brain-dead patient was successfully flown from Delhi to Chennai for a transplant on March 29. Doctors say this is the first time in India that a donor organ has covered more than 2,000km where the government as well as private entities […]
Four-year-old Aaradhya Mule is suffering from end-stage heart disease (Dilated Cardiomyopathy) since April, 2016. According to doctors treating her at Fortis Hospital in Mulund, only 10% of her heart is functional and she needs a heart transplant to survive at the earliest
Aaradhya Mule (4) is back in hospital. This is the 13th admission of this Navi Mumbai girl who has been waiting for a donor heart for heart transplant for last six months. Aaradhya is suffering from end-stage heart disease (Dilated Cardiomyopathy) since April, 2016. According to doctors treating her at Fortis Hospital in Mulund, only […]
A woman in her late twenties who was suffering from cardiomypathy, a disease that affects heart muscles, has got a new lease of life after she underwent a heart transplant in Pune. The same disease had earlier taken the life of her sister who could not find a heart transplant donor. Surekha Joshi, transplant […]
Life begins with organ transplant surgery – this is the message Reena Raju is set to spread when she represents India in the World Transplant Games 2017 in Spain later this year. The Bengaluru resident will compete in women’s 100m (30-39 years category) along with badminton mixed doubles player Balveer Singh (a kidney recipient). “I 
Organ donation not only gifts a life to the recipient, but it also saves a parent from the pain of losing a child, it prevents a child from growing up without a parent, it adds years of happiness to couples whose time together would otherwise have been cruelly cut short. It is the ultimate gift 
A Ukrainian woman received a heart within three days of registration in India, and her donor has not only revived her life, but has also given a ray of hope to five other people. The Surat donor was Ravi Devani, a marketing executive in Ahmedabad, met with an accident. Due to injury in head and