Donate an organ, give someone a new life – Preeti” She joined AIIMS as a young data entry operator, and around the age of 26, she became one of the first and youngest recipient of a donated heart in 2001 — from a 14-year-old boy. Today, over a decade later, she has become the face of a massive outdoor campaign launched by the institute to promote organ donation.

Chicago: It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days — even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants. Recently in Chicago, in what is believed to be the first documented case of its kind in the US, a transplanted kidney that was failing was removed from a patient while he was still alive and given to somebody else.
There have been other cases since the 1980s of transplant organs being used more than once, but they were rare and involved instances in which the first recipient died.

The much awaited heart transplant programme at the region’s tertiary care institute, PGIMER, has moved a step closer to reality with the head of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (CTVS) department set to undergo training for the purpose in the USA . Even though the Post Graduate Institute Of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) had been trying to initiate the program for the last few years, it is only now that the infrastructural requirements have been completed.

To give a boost to the organ donation programme in (PGIMER), authorities are thinking of setting up a network for organ sharing with public sector institutes.
A network between hospitals for sharing donated organs on the basis of urgency exists in South India and in Western countries like USA. In the near future, PGI may set up a similar network with AIIMS, Delhi, RR Hospital, Delhi and other tertiary care hospitals in the region.

It was tough for professor Amar Oswal to convince his family to donate the organs of his dead sister. But after the organs were donated, the family realised the impact of their deed. Overwhelmed by the response from the families of the recipients, the entire Oswal family has pledged to donate their organs now. The Oswal family was one of the few cadaver organ donor families who were felicitated by Zonal Transplant Co-ordination Centre on the eve of Maharashtra Organ Donation Day.

LONDON: British scientists claim to have developed a machine which could keep donor livers 'alive' outside human body. A team at Oxford University says the machine, known as METRA which would keep livers healthy during transportation from donor to the operating table, could help save the lives of many people who need liver transplants every year.

New Delhi: More than two lakh Indians require organ transplantation annually. However, less than 10% are able to get this timely help. Cadaver donation, which is the biggest source of organs for transplantation, remains as low as 0.1%, say experts.

To deal with the crisis, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has started a new initiative in which police are sensitized to legal issues related to retrieval of organs from a person who is declared brain dead-—most accident and trauma incidents that fall under medico-legal cases and come under this category.

MUMBAI: Is it possible to make cornea retrieval in all medico-legal cases without legal hassles, the Bombay HC asked the Centre on Monday while hearing a PIL on the underutilization of corneas. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Ranjit More was hearing the PIL by Sampat Shetty which pointed out that underutilization of corneas has resulted in wastage, and that in the absence of monitoring agency , there was scope for tampering with the waiting lists.

With the ministry of health having given the green signal for allograft or the transplanting of tissues from one person to another, a major push for tissue transplant was given at the 99th Indian Science Congress by scientist Rajyalakshi Manda.

Dr Manda stressed that tissue transplanting has a long history of safety and efficacy in almost all surgical specialities including orthopaedic, spine, sports medicine, dental and cosmetic surgeries.

Shortage of organs for transplantation is a worldwide problem and million of lives are lost every year because the organ
Transplantation option cannot be offered to them.
In India nearly 200,000 persons develop terminal kidney failure each year and their life can be sustained only through lifelong dialysis or kidney transplantation. Unfortunately, only 10 per cent of them are fortunate to get the benefit of such treatment and the remaining 90 per cent succumb to their condition, often in a short time.