Command Hospital gets national award for transplants

Chandigarh, July 30
The Command Hospital, Chandimandir, has been given the ‘Best Emerging National Organ Transplant Retrieval Centre Award’ by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation for its recent strides in the field.
The award will be presented to the hospital’s organ transplant team by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda during the 14th Indian Organ Donation Day function scheduled to be held in New Delhi on August 3.
Organ donation and retrieval was started in the armed forces in the late 2000s and introduced at the Western Command Hospital here in 2014, where about 75 such procedures have been performed so far.
It also has to its credit several firsts for any military hospital in the country like harvesting pancreas from a brain-dead person and retrieving the organs from a cardiac-dead person, a technically difficult procedure. — TNS

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