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| Transplants in India : 1980 to 2013 |
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| Transplants in Tamil Nadu :1980 to 2012 |
What has Tamil Nadu done in Healthcare, which no one state in India has been able to do as yet ?
The answer is Cadaver Transplant programs
As per current census report Tamil Nadu has done almost 1.3 per million donation rate last yr The cadaver organ registry in Tamil Nadu has reached yet another mile
stone - triple transplant surgeries.
This year for the first time, on April 9, the registry allotted three organs " a heart, lung and kidney ” to a patient admitted to Apollo Hospitals. Ten days later, doctors said the patient's condition continues to be critical, but the surgery has given hope to several others who require multi-organ transplants, said senior transplant surgeon Dr Anand Khakhar.
Minutes after the doctors at Apollo Speciality Hospital pronounced a road accident victim, 50-year-old E Palani, brain-dead, his family gave permission to harvest his vital organs — heart, lung, liver and kidneys. Transplant surgeons pushed for their own patients waiting for multi-organ transplant.
"The rule permits us to give priority to multi-organ recipients over single organ transplants when the donation comes from the hospital," said registry convenor Dr J Amalorpavanathan. The state cadaver registry has recorded more than a dozen dual transplants, such as kidney and liver or heart and lung, to at least three hospitals in the last two years. But now, surgeons are beginning to look at more complex surgeries that involve more than two organs.