UK-based Indian nurse who championed organ donation wins global award
Dubai: An Indian nurse based in the UK who has spent years campaigning for greater awareness of organ and stem-cell donation has won a global nursing award worth $250,000. Agimol Pradeep, a senior transplant coordinator at King’s College Hospital and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Salford, has been named the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2026 at a ceremony in…
Indian nurse Agimol Pradeep, based in the UK, has been awarded the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2026 in Kochi, India, for her tireless efforts in promoting organ and stem-cell donation awareness. With over 134,000 registrations from 214 countries and economies, Pradeep, a senior transplant coordinator at King’s College Hospital and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Salford, has emerged victorious.
Her work focuses on the issue of patients dying from organ failure while waiting for treatment, highlighting the need for increased awareness and the barriers faced by South Asian communities in finding ethnically matched donors. Pradeep's initiative, Upahaar, has already registered more than 10,000 stem-cell donors, turning challenges into opportunities for change.
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