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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Is Chennai one of the best locations in the world for heart transplants?

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Part of “Special Report” that came with TOI

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 [...]

Organ donors: AP loses the top slot to TN

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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 [...]

Organ-o-Cultural

Brain-dead migrant workers family come forward to donate his organs

From http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Chennai/Brain-dead-migrant-workers-family-come-forward-to-donate-his-organs-/articleshow/6169101.cms

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 [...]

100th regulated cadaver transplant performed

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 vehicle.

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Organs utilised by Transplant Hospitals in TN (Oct 2008 to June 2010)

Organs utilised by Transplant Hospitals in TN (Oct 2008 to June 2010) KIDNEY Stanley Local 5 Share 22 GH Local 17 Share 20 Apollo Local 32 Share 12 Chettinad Local 0 Share 1 ABC, Trichy Local 6 Share 5 Madurai Meenakshi Local 3 Share 4 CMC Local 9 Share 7 Kumaran Local 1 Share [...]