Organ donation

Diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) at the age of 15, Varun Anand found his calling in sports. This is a case in point for the power of transplants and how they can transform a life.

Dr Sunil Shroff, a renal transplant surgeon, established the MOHAN Foundation in 1997 after facing criticism abroad over the rising kidney transplant scams in India. His organisation educates and empowers people to take the organ donation pledge.

Uttarakhand resident and former transplant patient Abhinav Pangtey shares his ordeal with organ donation due to the prevailing misconceptions around it, and how he’s aiming to spread awareness at the World Transplant Games this year.

India's second-longest coma survivor, Dr Jaideep Kumar Sharma's life has been a roller coaster ride. He shares his earnest appeal to all of us to donate our organs.

"Before we started our mission we didn't know whose heart it was, or whom it was for. What mattered was making two lives worth it."

Did you know 1 donor can save as many as 9 lives? Or that 4 lakh Indian die waiting for a transplant every year? A step from you can improve the situation.

The concept is simple – for every kilogram of plastic waste that a person donates, they get one kilogram of rice in return. Within days of launching this initiative, the group collected almost 400 kg of plastic waste from the town.

It is said that the greatest gift is the gift of life. This saying is exemplified by what Tamil Nadu's 26-year-old Masilamani did to save a four-month old baby.

A truck rammed into Mihir’s motorcycle on Hajira Road on September 10. When the boy was rushed to Sunshine Global Hospitals, the doctors detected a clot in his brain. Two days later, he was declared brain-dead.

And though the pain of not being able to donate their daughter's organs continues to twist a knife in the hearts of the young couple, they decided to make the day special by funding the open heart surgery of an unprivileged four-year-old child.