Organ Donation In Chennai

A 19-year-old student, who was declared brain dead following an accident recently, has given a new lease of life to five individuals, a private health care facility said on Wednesday.

NDTV-Fortis More To Give Walkathon 2018 garnered huge support across India with nearly 6.2 crore steps contributed in 7-cities and online. The event was to raise awareness about the cause of organ donation in India and get more people to take the pledge to become organ donors. This year saw many well known personalities like Rajkummar Rao, Prakash ...

The story of a 15-year-old boy named Hithendra, who lost his life in a motorbike accident, continues to inspire many in Tamil Nadu to become organ donors. As his parents chose to donate Hithendra's heart, kidney, liver, corneas and bone marrow, their action sparked off a movement called 'Hithendra Effect'.

Three persons got a new lease of life after the vital organs of a 54-year-old brain dead textile worker were transplanted on them on Saturday.

In a country where organ donation has failed to catch up more than two decades after it was introduced, a hospital in Coimbatore has set a Guinness World Record for popularizing the cause -- enrolling 13,206 donors in just 8 hours.

They could be called champions of organ donation. Families of five brain-dead people donated their organs at the Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on Monday, thereby giving a fresh lease of life to 23 patients awaiting transplants of heart, kidneys, lungs and cornea.

In just two minutes, film director Vijay's 'Thank You' gets its message across on how a single brain dead person can give life to seven other people.

A new lease of life for two-year-old Russian baby, Gleb, who's recovering well after a heart transplant in Chennai. His heart developed pumping problems when he was just a year old, due to a condition called Restrictive Cardiomyopathy. Now, a new heart beats in him, thanks to the heart of a brain-dead baby in Bangalore, whose parents donated the he...

Even in her hour of grief, the mother of a 30-year-old software engineer agreed to donate her brain dead son's organs so that other patients can live longer.

A 19-year-old student, who was declared brain dead following an accident recently, has given a new lease of life to five individuals, a private health care facility said on Wednesday.

NDTV-Fortis More To Give Walkathon 2018 garnered huge support across India with nearly 6.2 crore steps contributed in 7-cities and online. The event was to raise awareness about the cause of organ donation in India and get more people to take the pledge to become organ donors. This year saw many well known personalities like Rajkummar Rao, Prakash ...

The story of a 15-year-old boy named Hithendra, who lost his life in a motorbike accident, continues to inspire many in Tamil Nadu to become organ donors. As his parents chose to donate Hithendra's heart, kidney, liver, corneas and bone marrow, their action sparked off a movement called 'Hithendra Effect'.

Three persons got a new lease of life after the vital organs of a 54-year-old brain dead textile worker were transplanted on them on Saturday.

In a country where organ donation has failed to catch up more than two decades after it was introduced, a hospital in Coimbatore has set a Guinness World Record for popularizing the cause -- enrolling 13,206 donors in just 8 hours.

They could be called champions of organ donation. Families of five brain-dead people donated their organs at the Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on Monday, thereby giving a fresh lease of life to 23 patients awaiting transplants of heart, kidneys, lungs and cornea.

In just two minutes, film director Vijay's 'Thank You' gets its message across on how a single brain dead person can give life to seven other people.

A new lease of life for two-year-old Russian baby, Gleb, who's recovering well after a heart transplant in Chennai. His heart developed pumping problems when he was just a year old, due to a condition called Restrictive Cardiomyopathy. Now, a new heart beats in him, thanks to the heart of a brain-dead baby in Bangalore, whose parents donated the he...

Even in her hour of grief, the mother of a 30-year-old software engineer agreed to donate her brain dead son's organs so that other patients can live longer.