As per the official release The Newsroom 24 received, this esteemed award was presented by Anupriya Patel, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers, to the hospital’s organ transplant team during the 14th Indian Organ Donation Day function held in New Delhi . The CHWC stood out among nearly 300 such hospitals across the nation, demonstrating excellence in organ donation and retrieval practices.
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The introduction of organ donation and retrieval within the Armed Forces began in the late 2000s, with CHWC launching its program in 2014. Since then, the hospital has successfully performed 75 organ transplant procedures. The CHWC has also achieved several significant milestones for military hospitals in the country like harvesting pancreas from a brain-dead person and retrieving the organs from a cardiac-dead person.
