On 11th October, 2013 an awareness session on organ donation was organized for the employees of Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, Bengaluru.
Ms. Smeja Paul, Project Manager, MOHAN Foundation, Bengaluru conducted the session. In her presentation she aimed at sensitizing the employees about the need for organ donation. She covered the following topics: activities of MOHAN Foundation across the country to strengthen the deceased organ donation programme; types of organ donation - live and deceased; about brain death; who can donate organs and tissues; the importance of consent by family members for the actual donation to take place and the importance of pledging ones organs by signing the donor card.
The participants raised a few questions about organ allocation, about organ retrieval and who should be contacted in case of an emergency.
A total of 18 employees participated in the session and17 of them signed the donor card.
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