Army’s Western Command Hospital gets national award

The Army’s Western Command Hospital was awarded the title of ‘Best Emerging National Transplant Retrieval Hospital’ by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) for its outstanding contribution to organ transplantation.

Located at Chandimandir in Haryana, the Command Hospital of the Army’s Western Command (CHWC) received the award during the 14th Indian Organ Donation Day function in New Delhi from Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel.

The hospital’s organ transplant team was honored for its excellence in organ donation and retrieval practices. CHWC has successfully performed 75 organ transplant procedures since launching its program in 2014, achieving significant milestones like harvesting pancreas from a brain-dead person and retrieving organs from a cardiac-dead person. This recognition marks a significant achievement for the hospital within the armed forces and the entire nation.