About NNOS
It aims to improve the quality of human life by maximizing the
availability of donor organs by assisting government programmes
that coordinate the recovery of organs for transplantation
and to serve the community by promoting interest in the organ
and tissue donation programmes.
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Brain Death and Organ Donation
Brain death is irreversible loss of all brain function and the person is clinically and legally dead. Brain dead persons are those who are in the hospital’s intensive care unit on total artificial life support system. Through this mechanism the heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas can be kept alive for a few hours. This is when healthy organs can be surgically removed froma dead person and transplanted in the needy patients.
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Contact us
NNOS
National Network for Organ Sharing
# 218, 2nd Floor,
T.T.K. Road,
Alwarpet,
Chennai- 600 018.
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Myths that hinder cadaver transplantation
There are age limits on donation
Fact: There is no age limit on who can donate.
Whether individuals can donate organs and tissue depends on their physical condition, not their age. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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