Cadaver Transplant Programme, Government of Tamil Nadu

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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 [...]

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CHENNAI: Should an alcoholic with a damaged liver receive the same priority as a non-alcoholic patient for cadaver liver transplants?

Votes seem to be rolling in for those who prefer to remain sober. A team of transplant surgeons has asked state cadaver transplant registry to give priority to patients with non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Surgeons fear [...]

http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/31/stories/2010053160550500.htm

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Expert says success rates in country at a par with the best in the world

— Photo: S.R. Raghunathan

Changing scenario:K. Ravindranath, chairman, Global Hospitals (left), and Mohamed Rela, Liver Transplant specialist, at a conference in Chennai on Sunday.

CHENNAI: The liver transplantation scene in India that started with low success rates a few decades ago has [...]

Pushpa Narayan | TNN

Chennai/Margao: A cadaveric liver, 250 units of blood components and a dedicated team of doctors and paramedical staff working roundthe-clock at the intensive care unit of Apollo Hospitals in Chennai could not save 27-year-old Joelle Nadia Torrado from Loutolim in Goa, who was admitted to the hospital last week.
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From : http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/14/stories/2010051461350500.htm

Compensation for small hospitals maintaining cadavers for donation

Ramya Kannan
CHENNAI: To give further fillip to the cadaver organ donation movement of the State, it has been decided that small hospitals maintaining cadavers are entitled to compensation for the expenses incurred for the same.

According to the Advisory Committee meeting, “a private donor hospital is entitled to [...]