Cadaver Transplant Programme, Government of Tamil Nadu

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Gifting life : Is Chennai one of the best locations in the world for heart transplants? SHIVANI BAIL speaks to doctors and patients across the city to know more…

Asecond chance at life is the biggest gift a person could possibly give a fellow human being. Doctors have [...]

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Bushra Baseerat | TNN

For the last many years, Andhra Pradesh ranked highest in the number of organ transplantations. However, the state has now lost its envious position to Tamil Nadu, not because the awareness levels among organ donors in AP has dipped but because of government apathy.

Statistics in city hospitals throws up an ironical situation. About [...]

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CHENNAI: For grief counsellors at the Government General Hospital (GH), the noble deed of an uneducated, homeless migrant family showed them the power of the human spirit. Hailing from Andhra Pradesh and surviving against the odds by eking out a living working on construction sites, relatives of Ramesh, a 23-year-old labourer, moved doctors with their [...]

From http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/05/stories/2010070559950500.htm

100th regulated cadaver transplant performed Ramya Kannan

CHENNAI: The 100th regulated cadaver organ transplantation was concluded on Sunday morning at the Government General Hospital.

The organ donor, B. Ravikumar, a young tea shop hand from Trisulam, was declared brain dead at the GH on Thursday after he was run over by a [...]