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Pakistani girl undergoes liver transplant procedure in India

April 13, 2013
Madhia Tariq, 16, had no hope of survival when she slipped into a coma after collapsing in her Lahore school in January due to acute liver failure. An air ambulance from Delhi brought the young Pakistani student to India -- and …

Indian doctors aid Pakistani patients amid border tensions

January 13, 2013
A group of Indian doctors were helping their Pakistani counterparts to do complex liver transplants in Lahore even as Pakistani raiders were beheading Indian soldiers. The doctors from Delhi's Apollo Hospital spent long hours in …

Organ donations in Mumbai records a 15-year high in 2012 due to better awareness

January 2, 2013
2012 saw a fifth of the all the donations done since 1997 in Mumbai. The number of organ donations in the city was at a 15-year high in 2012, with 63 organs - 43 kidneys, 18 livers and two lungs - being donated from 27 cadaver …

Sudanese boy gets liver, kidney transplant at Delhi hospital

November 30, 2012
According to doctors at a Delhi hospital, a 12-year-old Sudanese boy got a new lease of life on Thursday following a combined liver and kidney transplant with the organs donated by his two sisters. Mukhtar Ahmed Ali Gadkarim was …

Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac failure: Doctor

August 14, 2012
Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac failure, said renowned doctor Mohammed Rela of Chennai's Global Health City Tuesday even as he drew attention to the urgent need for organ donations. In a statement, Rela, …

Vilasrao Deshmukh passes away

August 14, 2012
Vilasrao Deshmukh, Union minister and former Maharastra chief minister passed away this afternoon. He was 67. The minister was battling liver cancer at a hospital in Chennai. Due to his critical condition he had been classified …

Organ donor dead, search for liver and kidney donor for Deshmukh continues

August 14, 2012
Doctors treating Vilasrao Deshmukh are again searching for a liver donor after the ‘brain dead’ man who was going to be operated upon died before docs could carry out a transplant on him.  Asked whether they were desperately …

Vilasrao Deshmukh set to undergo kidney and liver transplant, after being put on the ‘super ultra-emergency’ list

August 14, 2012
Vilasrao Deshmukh is going to get his liver and kidney transplant soon. A 31 year-old driver who was declared brain dead after being hit by an ambulance on Saturday near Kovalam was going to be the unwitting donor. On the same …

Vilasrao Deshmukh suffering from Hepatitis B, liver cancer

August 10, 2012
According to the doctors treating him, Vilasrao Deshmukh’s condition is improving but he’s still critical. Deshmukh was admitted to Global Hospitals with a condition that’s now been diagnosed as liver cancer. The docs said …

Vilasrao Deshmukh’s condition stable: Hospital official

August 9, 2012
According to a top hospital executive, Vilasrao Deshmukh’s condition is stable. “Yes, he is stable,” K Ravindranath, chairman and managing director of Global Hospitals, told reporters in a brief comment on the condition of …

Vilasrao Deshmukh on life-support, visited by Maha CM Chavan

August 8, 2012
Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh remains in critical condition, doctors said Wednesday. According to a hospital official, Deshmukh, 67, is on life-support system. "The doctors have decided to keep him under …

Vilasrao Deshmukh showing signs of improvement

August 8, 2012
On Tuesday evening, 24 hours after he was flown to Chennai, Vilasrao Deshmukh is showing signs of improvement.  “His condition is stable. But he will remain hospitalised for two more days,” said an official of Global Health …

Vilasrao Deshmukh’s condition criticial

August 8, 2012
Vilasrao Desmukh’s condition is critical and he is being closely monitored by doctors. The Union Science and Technology Minister is admitted to the Global Hospital in Chennai with a liver ailment, hospital sources said on …

Liver transplant in Indian hospital saves Yemeni boy’s life

July 30, 2012
The Malek family from Yemen had lost all hope when nine-year-old Abdul was diagnosed with the same liver disease that had killed his two siblings. But the boy has got a new lease of life after doctors from the national capital …