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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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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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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.
