Cadaver Transplant Programme, Government of Tamil Nadu

From Indian Express : Express News Service
First Published : 23 Sep 2009 02:39:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 23 Sep 2009 07:01:51 AM IST

CHENNAI: Thanks to the sustained implementation of the Cadaver Transplant Programme of the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Tamil Nadu has recorded the highest number of organ transplants from cadavers in a year.

Announcing [...]

From Hindu

Special Correspondent

In a year State has achieved what it could not between 1994 and 2008

— Photo: R.Ragu

In recognition: V.K. Subburaj, Principal Secretary, Health, presenting a memento to S. Visvakumar, who performed the first heart transplant at Government General Hospital, at a workshop in Chennai on Tuesday. P.W.C. Davidar, IT Secretary (second from left) [...]

From Times of India

Pushpa Narayan, TNN 20 September 2009, 06:33am IST

CHENNAI: On September 16, when doctors at the Government General Hospital here performed Tamil Nadu’s first heart transplant in the public

sector, a team Global Hospitals created another record — it carried out the first split transplant and auxiliary liver transplant in the country using a [...]

From http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article17337.ece

The Tamil Nadu police will provide a “Green Corridor” (non-stop thoroughfare) for vehicles transporting vital organs to any part of the State, Chennai Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said on Wednesday.

“Police handle about 30,000 bodies, mostly of suicide and road accident victims, every year. By creating a network of police and doctors, we can make [...]