Brain dead youth donates organs including hands
Hands donation, a first in Karnataka
Bengaluru, November 20: For the first time in the state, both the hands of a brain-dead 22-year-old youth were donated to a 31-year-old person who lost his both the hands in a crusher tragedy at a factory in Puducherry.
Both the hands conserved in chemicals and ice were transported from Bengaluru to 300 km long Puducherry’s Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research within three hours on Monday at 4.15 pm.
The youth who donated the organs was hailed from Bihar and he was working in a telecom company. He sustained severe head injury in an accident happened while going to collect money from a retailer at Anekal on November 15. Later, he was admitted to government hospital in Anekal and then he shifted to a private hospital. On November 16, he was shifted to Narayana Health City. After two days, the doctors declared that he was brain dead. Even during the painful time, his parents have decided to donate organs including his hands.
The poor parents have already lost their three children and now, they have lost their fourth one in the accident. His heart would be transplanted to an 18-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh and the liver would be transplanted to a 67 year-old person from Bengaluru who has been suffering from liver cancer. One kidney was transplanted to a patient at Mysuru Apollo hospital.
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Canada, US to launch formal talks to review their free trade agreement in mid-January
Toronto (AP): Canada and the US will launch formal discussions to the review their free trade agreement in mid-January, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said.
The prime minister confirmed to provincial leaders that Dominic LeBlanc, the country's point person for US-Canada trade relations, “will meet with US counterparts in mid-January to launch formal discussions," Carney's office said in a statement late Thursday.
The United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, or USMCA, is up for review in 2026. US President Donald Trump negotiated the deal in his first term and included a clause to possibly renegotiate the deal in 2026.
Carney met with the leaders of Canada's provinces on Thursday to give them an update on trade talks with the US.
Canada is one of the most trade-dependent countries in the world, and more than 75 per cent of Canada's exports go to the country's southern neighbour. But most exports to the US are currently exempted by USMCA.
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Trump cut off trade talks to reduce tariffs on certain sectors with Carney in October after the Ontario provincial government ran an anti-tariff advertisement in the US. That followed a spring of acrimony, since abated, over Trump's insistence that Canada should become the 51st US state.
Carney said earlier Thursday that Canada and the US were close to an agreement at the time on sectoral tariff relief in multiple areas, including steel and aluminum. Tariffs are taking a toll on certain sectors of Canada's economy, particularly aluminum, steel, auto and lumber.
Carney also said trade irritants flagged this week by US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are elements of a “much bigger discussion” about continental trade. Greer said a coming review of the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal will hinge on resolving US concerns about Canadian policies on dairy products, alcohol and digital services.
Carney and the provincial premiers agreed to meet in person in Ottawa early in the new year.
Canada is the top export destination for 36 US states. Nearly USD 3.6 billion Canadian (USD 2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day.
About 60 per cent of US crude oil imports are from Canada, as are 85 per cent of US electricity imports.
Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the US and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national security.
Carney said US access to Canada's critical ministers is not a certainty.
“It's a potential opportunity for the United States, but it's not an assured opportunity for the United States. It's part of a bigger discussion in terms of our trading relationship, because we have other partners around the world, in Europe for example, who are very interested in participating,” Carney said earlier Thursday.
