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J.P. Nadda (left) awards the Health Minister of Tamil Nadu, C. Vijaya Baskar, with the Best State Award in the area of organ donation and transplantation. The state has been awarded the 'Best State Award' in cadaver organ donation from the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation, for five consecutive years (2015–19). [25]
The hospital was started in 2018 in Chromepet, Chennai, as a multi-specialty hospital with focus on critically ill and multi-organ transplantation. [11] [12] The 450 beds hospital is spread over 36 acres of land in Chennai and has 130 critical care beds, 14 operating rooms and advanced Radiology & Laboratory services.
On 10 July 1987, the first ever transplant surgery in the hospital was done. [8] [9] The first successful cadaver renal transplantation was performed at the hospital in January 1996. [9] In April 2007, the government decided to open pay-and-use wards with 200 beds and own nurses, to be maintained by the Tamil Nadu Medical Commission, at the ...
[47] [48] In a major organ donation drive in March 2012 called DAAN, it partnered with HCL Technologies along with Apollo Group of Hospitals, Chennai Police, Indian Medical Association, Cadaver Transplant Programme (Government of Tamil Nadu) and received 12,900+ pledges from policemen, doctors and corporate employees. This was the largest organ ...
Tamil Nadu is a major center for medical tourism and Chennai is termed as "India's health capital". [9] Medical tourism forms an important part of the economy with more than 40% of total medical tourists visiting India making it to Tamil Nadu.
Globally, a kidney transplant has never been reported in a recipient with the Bombay O blood group due to the rarity and higher complications involved. Additionally, the lack of precedents or guidelines for monitoring anti-H antibody levels, which are significant in preventing organ rejection, made the transplantation highly challenging.
The Zonal Transplant Coordination Center (ZTCC) in Mumbai and Nagpur oversees organ transplantation activities in Maharashtra. [15] Between 2012 and 2014, the state recorded 116 organ transplants. [15] In 2018, 135 donations were recorded. [37] In 2019, Maharashtra overtook Tamil Nadu and Telangana in organ donations with 447 organ ...
The primary objectives of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 is to prevent commercial and illegal donations or advertisements of human organs. [4] Any person whether they are transplantation coordinator, or associated to any medical college or hospital or those who helps in removing of human organ or tissues from an alive or deceased body without any authority, shall be ...