Question
1. A medical breakthrough has come to pass last week at the Apollo Hospitals, Madras, with the performance of the first major multi-organ transplant.
A) The courage and nobility displayed by the grief-stricken family of the donor cannot be lauded adequately in words.
B) The donor was declared ‘brain dead’ under the regulations of Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994.
C) The replacement of injured, diseased or worn out organs is thus possible utilizing such organs from the ‘brain dead’.
D) More than the provisions of the law, the technological possibilities of the hospital and excellent team work made this achievement possible.
6. India has now entered a new medical epoch because Indian experts can now transplant 21 different organs and tissues.
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