Transplants So Far

Performance Report : From Oct 2008 to Dec 31, 2011
Donors From TN 223
Heart 36
Lung 5
Liver 200
Kidney 415
Total Major organs 656
Heart Valve 274
Cornea 345
Skin 1
Total Organs 1276
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TN leads in cadaver transplants

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 [...]

First anniversary of Cadaver Transplantation Programme observed

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. [...]

TN docs show way in optimal use of transplant organs

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 [...]

Inaguration of Workshop to mark the completion of One Year of Cadaver Transplant Program

‘Green Corridor’ for vehicles transporting organs

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, [...]

Organs utilised by Transplant Hospitals in TN (Oct 08 to Aug 09)

KIDNEY Stanley Local 1 Share 10 GH Local 0 Share 12 Apollo Local 16 Share 5 Chettinad Local 0 Share 1 ABC, Trichy Local 6 Share 5 Madurai Meenakshi Local 3 Share 3 CMC Local 4 Share 3 Kumaran Local 1 Share 1 SRMC Local 1 Share 0 Galaxy Local 1 Share 0 Kamakshi [...]