Awareness session on organ donation at Bharti AXA Life Insurance Co. Ltd., New Delhi

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  Brain death movie being shown

  

  Participants attending the session

  

  Participants with their donor cards

  MOHAN Foundation was invited to conduct a talk on organ donation at Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company Limited at Jhandewalan, New Delhi on December 2, 2016. Ms. Malati Niranjan (Manager-Organization Development, Bharti AXA Life Insurance Co. Ltd, Mumbai) initiated the proposal with MOHAN Foundation to have a talk on organ donation for their staff and Ms. Ankitaa Singh (Manager HR, Gurgaon) executed the proposal and organized the session at the company’s Delhi office. Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi (Programme Manager, MF Delhi-NCR) took the session and Ms. Jyoti Sharma (Transplant Coordinator, MF) accompanied her.

   

  Bharti AXA Life is a life Insurance player that was started in 2006. It brings together strong financial expertise of the Paris-headquartered AXA Group & Bharti Enterprises – one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, agricultural business, financial services, and retail. Today, Bharti AXA Life has a national footprint of distributors trained to provide quality financial advice & insurance solutions to the large Indian customer base.

   

  Dr. Muneet began the session by giving a brief outline of the activities of MOHAN Foundation. She then introduced the concept of organ donation and transplantation, describing in brief the process of donation, the 3 w’s of donation namely who can donate, when and what organs and tissues could be donated.

   

  She then explained brain stem death and how a person is declared brain dead by four different doctors that have nothing to with transplantation. Only the hospitals that are registered with the state appropriate authority can undertake transplantation. She also explained about the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994 that legalized brain stem death thereby facilitating organ procurement from heart beating brain stem dead donors.

   

  She also shared that having a donor card is not enough because in our country even if one has signed the donor card, it is important to bring the family in consensus with one’s wishes, as their decision would be considered final.

   

  At the end of the session, film on brain death was shown and queries of the participants were taken up:

   

  • How it would happen and who would inform the hospital if the death occurred in a different state while the organ donation pledge was taken in a different state

   

  • Any disadvantages of organ donation to the donor family if there was illegitimate usage by the concerned hospitals

   

  • Is the transplantation of organs free for recipients

   

  27 participants attended the session and 25 donor cards were picked up.

  
  
  Source-Ms. Jyoti Sharma