Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane has stated that the State government proposes to introduce Organ Transplant Act in the coming monsoon assembly session and also amend Public Health Act.

He was speaking after inaugurating the Rotary Eye Bank of Goa at Vrundavan Hospital & Research Centre at Peddem-Mapusa.

chemical sciences Sugars preserve organs longer Growth of ice crystals during organ preservation at low temperatures leaves them unfit for transplantation. Several carbohydrates have the ability to prevent the growth of ice crystals. This ability correlates with the hydration number which is the number of water molecules bound to one carbohydrate molecule. A team of scientists

Twenty specialists helped in 16-hour operation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

The proud team: Shourya Verma, with Dr. A. S. Soin (left), and Siya Thakur, with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Problems associated with implanting animal organs in humans had seemed insurmountable, but new research could soon bring about the first clinical trials.

By YOJNA GUSAI
NEW DELHI

Nov. 20: If the proposed amendments to the Transplantation of Human Organs (THO) Act, 1994, are approved, foreign nationals will be barred from acquiring organs from Indian donors.

A debate on the sale of kidneys has thrown up the idea of a regulated system of compensation, but opponents have slammed it, saying such a system would not hold in poorer countries like India. Writing in the British Medical Journal, Mr Arthur Matas, of the University of Minnesota, suggested that regulated compensation systems for living donors may be the solution to the growing shortage of kidneys for transplantation.

The most commonly donated organ is the eye. The other organs often used in India are the heart and the liver. A beneficial fallout of my article "Spare a thought for the donor' in The-Hindu of April 15 has been the interest it aroused in cadaver organ donations. I have had a number of calls from people asking for information on the use of organs after death. This piece should be read in conjunction with the previous article.

If things go as planned, transplantation of liver would be a reality in Kolkata within a couple of months. After Mumbai, Kolkata would be the second city in the country to facilitate transplantation in a state-run hospital at a much cheaper cost.

Two government orders issued last month clarify procedures for declaring brain death and make it mandatory for hospitals in the State to adopt them The government orders clarify several procedures that are ambiguous in the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994. For instance, it gives the procedure for performing apnea tests, which are essential for declaring brain death } Chennai

Chennai's Siddharth has become the country's youngest patient to successfully undergo a complete liver transplant. Doctors at Delhi's Sir Gangaram Hospital, who conducted the operation on 11-month-old Siddharth, say he beat the earlier record held by Pakistani national Shreyar. A resident of Karachi, Shreyar was one-year-old when he underwent the liver transplant in 2006 in the same hospital.

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