Cadaver Liver

By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: Doctors in India will now get text alerts reminding them to ask families to donate organs of their deceased loved ones as part of a nationwide campaign to solve the country’s organ shortage that has fuelled a black market trade in organs. The drive, “Poochna Mat Bhoolo” – which means “don’t forget to ask” ...

In a rare surgery, doctors at a city hospital split cadaver liver of a 32-year-old brain dead patient and gave one lobe each to two persons in dire need of a liver transplant, thus giving them a fresh lease of life.

AIIMS received the year's first cadaver donation with the family of a 24-year-old man from Sangam Vihar, donating his organs after he was declared brain dead.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked officials from the health department to offer medical help to union minister and senior Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh who is undergoing treatment for a serious liver ailment at a hospital in Chennai.

The concept of organ donation has not caught on well in India for want of public education and awareness. Thousands of lives are lost in India annually since transplantation of unpaired organs like heart, liver and pancreas is either difficult or impossible from living donors. This is only possible on a large scale if these organs are available fro...

By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: Doctors in India will now get text alerts reminding them to ask families to donate organs of their deceased loved ones as part of a nationwide campaign to solve the country’s organ shortage that has fuelled a black market trade in organs. The drive, “Poochna Mat Bhoolo” – which means “don’t forget to ask” ...

In a rare surgery, doctors at a city hospital split cadaver liver of a 32-year-old brain dead patient and gave one lobe each to two persons in dire need of a liver transplant, thus giving them a fresh lease of life.

AIIMS received the year's first cadaver donation with the family of a 24-year-old man from Sangam Vihar, donating his organs after he was declared brain dead.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked officials from the health department to offer medical help to union minister and senior Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh who is undergoing treatment for a serious liver ailment at a hospital in Chennai.

The concept of organ donation has not caught on well in India for want of public education and awareness. Thousands of lives are lost in India annually since transplantation of unpaired organs like heart, liver and pancreas is either difficult or impossible from living donors. This is only possible on a large scale if these organs are available fro...