cadaveric hand transplant

Around 200 surgeons have signed up to be trained on frozen cadavers from the anatomy department of Sion Hospital. Chennai-based liver transplant surgeon Dr Mohamed Rela will also conduct the programme.

To boost cadaveric organ transplant, the civic-run Sion hospital will conduct a hands-on training programme on Saturday for doctors to ensure better outcomes for such operations.

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Taking a leaf out of Tamil Nadu’s health programme , the state government will soon roll out a plan to boost cadaveric organ donation in Maharashtra.

King George’s Medical University is set to revive its Cadaveric Multi Organ Donation (CMOD) programme in a full-fledged manner.

More than 100 experts and personnel from nearly half a dozen departments and institutions made the cadaveric multi-organ donation and subsequent transplants successfully on Saturday.

Annually, around 100 cadaver transplants take place in India which is about .01 per million population.

Organ transplant programme that reached its peak in 2015, with 218 transplants has been on a steady decline in the last two years with just around 30 transplants in 2017.

The Union health and family welfare ministry granted licence to Jawaharlal institute of postgraduate medical education and research (Jipmer) to perform cadaveric tissue transplantation.

Doctors say Organ Transplant Act will first have to be rectified before the face transplant surgery can be performed.

A J Hospital, which has harvested organs from more than six brain-dead persons in the past one year, celebrated World Organ Donation Day-2016, on Saturday.

Less than 20 hand transplants have been performed in India, with Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi having started the procedure.

India's cadaver transplant programme achieved a significant milestone in 2023, with over 1,000 deceased donors. It also surpassed other countries in the total number of hand transplants. Manipur, a conflict-torn state, joined the deceased donation programme, conducting two donations. Telangana led in cadaver donations, followed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.

When deceased Samar Chakraborty's family donated his organs, not much was required to find a matching recipient. Being O+, Chakraborty was a universal donor and recipients of any blood group could have benefited. Besides his liver--which saved cirrhosis patient Madhuri Saha--his heart could also have saved another person but for the fact that none of the hospitals in the city is licensed to carry out the surgery .