In Pics: India's 2024 Paralympics Team Wins NDTV Sports Performance Of The Year Award
The Indian contingent achieved its best-ever medals tally at Paris Paralympics 2024, securing a record-breaking 29 medals - 7 gold, 9 silver, and 13 bronze.
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Written by Snigdha Basu | Wednesday February 15, 2017 , ChennaiThe story of a 15-year-old boy named Hithendra, who lost his life in a motorbike accident, continues to inspire many in Tamil Nadu to become organ donors. As his parents chose to donate Hithendra's heart, kidney, liver, corneas and bone marrow, their action sparked off a movement called 'Hithendra Effect'.
- Written by Harsha Kumari Singh | Tuesday February 14, 2017 , Jaipur
The heart Oshin received was donated by the family of a 55-year-old man after he was declared brain dead. For the surgery, a green corridor was created and the heart was moved from a hospital in Gurgaon to Okhla in just 27 minutes.
- Written by Parul Chopra (With inputs from Dr Sonia Lal Gupta) | Thursday March 09, 2017
Organ donation is when a person allows healthy transplantable organs and tissues to be removed, either after death or when alive, and transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. There are a lot of myths about organ donation. Lets find out the truth.
