organ

New Delhi: At least six people, including a Delhi-based doctor, have been arrested in connection with an alleged organ transplant racket operating in Bangladesh and Delhi-NCR region. Police officials gave this information on Tuesday.Acting on a tip-off, the Delhi Police Crime Branch had been...

CMV belongs to the herpes virus family and can infect people of all ages. It spreads through body fluids and usually remains dormant, causing no symptoms or a mild illness characterized by fever, sore throat, fatigue, or swollen glands.But it can be risky for some people. CMV is the virus most...

New Delhi, The Union Health Ministry has written to the ministries of external affairs and home affairs underlining the need to sensitize foreigners visiting India for organ transplants about the guidelines and legal requirements governing the process in the country. .In the letter, Union...

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], The Government of Kerala has decided to establish an Institute of Organ and Tissue Transplantation in Kozhikode. It is being established as an Apex Institute for research, training and patient care in the area of ​​organ transplantation and related...

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Government has decided to set up an Organ and Tissue Transplant Institute in Kozhikode.According to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the initiative aims to tackle rampant exploitation in the organ transplant sector.On Wednesday, the state Cabinet chaired by the...

Xinjiang [China], The situation regarding the treatment of Uyghurs in China is deeply worrying and has given rise to serious allegations of human rights abuses, including forced organ harvesting.In March, during a US congressional committee hearing, experts claimed that Chinese authorities had...

New Delhi, the modern Army Hospital (Research and Referral) has launched a major expansion of its infrastructure with three new medical centers for oncology, ophthalmology and orthopedics and joint replacement to be built on its sprawling campus here in the next one or two years.Lieutenant...

Guwahati, The first successful cadaveric kidney transplant in the northeast was carried out at a state-run hospital in Guwahati, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.He said two kidneys of a brain-dead accident victim were recently transplanted to two people at Gauhati...

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday informed the state assembly that the state police is investigating complaints alleging that organ trafficking is taking place in the state and several arrests have been made in this regard.Responding to a question on organ...

Media reports on Thursday claimed that the Center is in talks with NGOs and transplant surgeons about the possibilities of opening up organ exchange between unrelated individuals.Current laws allow living donation mainly from close relatives such as parents, siblings, children, spouses...

Kochi, Kerala Police on Saturday said it has arrested the alleged mastermind of an international human trafficking network involved in organ harvesting.Ernakulam Rural SP Vaibhav Saxena said 41-year-old Ballamkonda Ram Prasad, also known as Prathapan, was the alleged mastermind of the mafia...

Tamil Nadu Police has already detained four people for their alleged involvement in arranging for donors to be middlemen who linked them to recipients in Iran.Recall that Sabit Nassar (30), a native of Kerala, was arrested by the Kerala Police on May 19 after returning from Iran, as central...

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala State Commission for Women on Friday sought a report from the state police on alleged cases of organ trafficking recently reported by the media.Commission chairperson P Satidevi asked Thrissur and Ernakula district police chiefs to investigate the alleged organ trade...

It is noteworthy that on May 19, Sabith Nassar was arrested at Koch International Airport while returning from Iran.Kerala Police had arrested him following a tip-off from Centra Intelligence agencies that he was regularly visiting Iran and other West Asia countries and was suspected to be...

By Shalini Bhardwaj New Delhi [India], Organ donation by two patients aged 42 and 27 at AIIMS Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center (JPNATC), Delhi, gave life to eight people and vision to four. "After two simultaneous organ donations, transplant teams from AIIMS and other parts of the city...

New Delhi: Organs harvested from two road accident victims, who were declared brain-dead by AIIMS doctors here, gave new life to eight persons in the national capital on Tuesday.The two victims – a 42-year-old woman, a native of Rajasthan, and a 27-year-old man, who was referred to AIIMS from...

Kochi: Shocking information about illegal collection of organs of Indian citizens smuggled to other countries has emerged during the interrogation of a person arrested by the Kerala Police on Sunday.Police sources said on Monday that accused Sabit Nassar has admitted to helping several people...

Kochi, Kerala Police on Sunday arrested a 30-year-old man, suspected to be a key figure in an international human trafficking network involved in organ harvesting.Sabith Nassar, a resident of Valappadu in Thrissur district, was taken into custody from Cochin International Airport Limited...

Jaipur, Rajasthan government on Wednesday suspended a senior doctor of Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Government Hospital in a fake NOC case for organ transplant.Rajasthan Health Minister Gajendra Singh Khinvsar told reporters here that Dr. Rajendra Bagri has been suspended under service rules and a...

New Delhi: A 28-km green corridor has been built from Shalimar Bagh to Saket in the national capital to deliver a life-saving liver to a 30-year-old man suffering from liver cirrhosis, a private hospital here said on Monday.The family of the 76-year-old road accident victim, who was suffering...