Organ Donation on a world scale
yet another green corridor' organ transplant in city
Complements of the TIMES OF INDIA
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CHENNAI: The family of 52-year-old Asha was grief-stricken when the neurologists at Apollo Hospitals declared her brain dead. But the only solace is that her heart will continue to beat and her eyes will continue to see. In her death, she had given a new lease of life to at least six others as her organs replaced the ailing ones in people who she or her kin possibly never knew.
In yet another show of solidarity and support to the cadaver transplant, the city traffic police created a green corridor and ferried the heart from the Teynampet hospital to Frontier Lifeline in just 15 minutes for a 50-year-old Delhi-based man.
The recipient name withheld had undergone an angioplasty at least four times followed by four by-pass surgeries at a private hospital in Delhi. "Almost every time it failed. We were told he was going in for a multi-organ failure. The heart's injection factor was reduced to a mere 17%. Then doctors put combo devices that helped him survive for some time. It had a biventricular pacemaker and defibrillators. But even then he was deteriorating," his relatives said.
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The gift that saves lives
By Heather Billings December 3, 2008
The Collegian Online
For Fresno State student Kavon Momen, the most touching gestures don’t come from the heart but from the bone.
Momen, 23, was recently diagnosed with aplastic anemia, or bone marrow failure. According to the Mayo Clinic’s Web site, aplastic anemia causes bone marrow to stop producing new blood cells, including platelets and red and white blood cells. Risk of infection and uncontrolled bleeding are high. <MORE>
