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TopicKidney transplant

Topic: Kidney transplant

Pune doctor accused in Porsche case arrested in connection with kidney transplant racket

Dr Ajay Taware, now lodged in Yerwada jail, was accused of tampering with blood samples of 17-yr-old accused of crashing a Porsche car into a motorbike in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar last year.

Hospital transplant coordinators ‘exploited poor donors’ — Delhi Police bust inter-state ‘kidney racket’

Racket active in Delhi-NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh & Gujarat and arranged 34 kidney transplants in 11 hospitals, investigation finds. 'Kingpin' among 15 arrested.

Bought for Rs 2 lakh, sold for Rs 10 lakh — Haryana Police bust kidney-trafficking racket in Gurugram

Racket was being run by Jharkhand resident who advertised organ sale on Facebook. Police say he kept Bangladeshi nationals in Gurugram guesthouse for ‘treatment’ at Jaipur's Fortis Hospital.

Boston man gets genetically modified pig’s kidney in world’s first such transplant

The 62-yr-old with end-stage kidney disease was operated on at Massachusetts General Hospital. Previous animal organ transplants have been done outside human body or in brain-dead humans.

Bihar’s Dalit women at the mercy of greedy doctors—robbed of uterus in 2012, kidneys now

Bihar has changed, but not for poor Dalit women who continue to be victims of doctors running blacklisted clinics. They end up with stolen uterus or kidneys—and a huge financial debt.

A ‘unique’ kidney swap transplant where two patients got organs from each other’s wives

The 6-hour surgery at Fortis Escorts Okhla in Delhi took place after both families agreed to the surgery post counselling, the hospital said.

‘Self-styled Phunsukh Wangdu’, anaesthesiologist — the men behind Delhi ‘kidney racket’

Police have identified Kuldeep Ray Vishwakarma, described as an OT technician with 20 years’ experience, as the prime accused in the alleged kidney racket. 

Doctor among 10 held as Delhi Police bust ‘kidney racket that lured poor & homeless with cash’

The matter allegedly came to light when some of the accused were seen outside a Delhi hospital, offering money to homeless people. The hospital then informed the Hauz Khas police.

Dedicated teams, cost, facilities — why pvt hospitals do over 75% of organ transplants in India

India is third in the world in numbers of solid organ transplants after US & China, with 17,000-18,000 surgeries each year.

‘Major barriers’ broken as pig kidneys transplanted in brain-dead man produce urine for 74 hrs

Procedure by researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham described in a scientific paper published in 'American Journal of Transplantation' on 20 January.

On Camera

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.