Vadodara: GMERS Medical College and Hospital at Gotri carried out its first-ever organ donation on Monday, with the liver and both kidneys of a brain-dead road accident victim retrieved and transported to Ahmedabad for transplantation.The donor was identified as 40-year-old Jigar Mehta, a resident of Vishnukunj Society, who sustained severe head injuries in a road…
Tarun Maru being bid farewell Surat: A lightning strike that claimed the life of a 26-year-old Surat man has given a second chance to at least five patients awaiting transplants. Tarun Maru was declared brain-dead after being hit by lightning on Dumas beach. His family chose to donate his organs, transforming a devastating loss into…
Doctors in China have reported a major milestone in organ transplantation after a 71-year-old man lived 171 days following the world’s first published pig liver transplant. The surgery, performed in May 2024 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, involved transplanting a genetically modified liver from an 11-month-old pig. The patient initially survived…
