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Air Ambulance Ferries Organs Harvested From Brain Dead
In the second instance of use of air ambulance in the state to ferry harvested organs, a chartered aircraft was today used to transport the heart and lungs of a 19-year-old brain dead patient from Kochi to a hospital in Chennai.
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A Heart's 90-Min Journey From Pune to Mulund
Without the heart transplant, the 22-year-old was looking at barely two weeks of life, said Dr K R Balakrishnan, director of cardiac sciences at Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai, who was the transplant specialist flown to Mumbai for the path-breaking surgery yesterday.
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How a Human Heart Was Rushed from Bangalore to Chennai
Green corridors to facilitate organ transport used to be a phenomenon that happens in foreign countries. But not any more. Today, a heart was sent from Bangalore to Chennai in record time - thanks to green corridors on both sides.
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Chennai ship grounded: Lapse or helplessness?
Outside Chennai's Fortis Malar Hospital Dr Kshitiji is anxiously waiting for some positive news about his young cousin Rushabh. He is one of the five sailors on board the ship MT Pratibha Cauvery which got grounded near the Besant Nagar beach in Chennai on Wednesday. Survivors say Rushabh had got into the life boat which capsized and is missing eve...
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City doctors bring back Congo kid's sight
It's been two years since 8-year-old Mupenzi Assumani Ephrem properly saw what Christmas looked like at home. Now, after two near-emergency brain surgeries at Fortis Malar Hospital, the boy who had been rendered blind is excited at flying home to Congo to be with his family for Christmas.
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Air Ambulance Ferries Organs Harvested From Brain Dead
In the second instance of use of air ambulance in the state to ferry harvested organs, a chartered aircraft was today used to transport the heart and lungs of a 19-year-old brain dead patient from Kochi to a hospital in Chennai.
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A Heart's 90-Min Journey From Pune to Mulund
Without the heart transplant, the 22-year-old was looking at barely two weeks of life, said Dr K R Balakrishnan, director of cardiac sciences at Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai, who was the transplant specialist flown to Mumbai for the path-breaking surgery yesterday.
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How a Human Heart Was Rushed from Bangalore to Chennai
Green corridors to facilitate organ transport used to be a phenomenon that happens in foreign countries. But not any more. Today, a heart was sent from Bangalore to Chennai in record time - thanks to green corridors on both sides.
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Chennai ship grounded: Lapse or helplessness?
Outside Chennai's Fortis Malar Hospital Dr Kshitiji is anxiously waiting for some positive news about his young cousin Rushabh. He is one of the five sailors on board the ship MT Pratibha Cauvery which got grounded near the Besant Nagar beach in Chennai on Wednesday. Survivors say Rushabh had got into the life boat which capsized and is missing eve...
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City doctors bring back Congo kid's sight
It's been two years since 8-year-old Mupenzi Assumani Ephrem properly saw what Christmas looked like at home. Now, after two near-emergency brain surgeries at Fortis Malar Hospital, the boy who had been rendered blind is excited at flying home to Congo to be with his family for Christmas.
