MOHAN Foundation conducts an Awareness Session on Organ Donation at NIFT, Chennai

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  Mr. Anubhav Kumar Dalmia, President of Environmental, Social Service and Ethics (ESSE) Club at NIFT, Chennai welcoming the gathering

  

  Ms. Kavitha S, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai conducting the awareness session on organ donation for the students of NIFT, Chennai

  

  At the beginning of the session all those who knew about organ donation were asked to raise their hands

  On 7^th October, 2013 an awareness session on organ donation and organ transplantation was organized for the students and faculty members of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Chennai. Ms. Kavitha S, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai and Mr. Ashok R, Trainee Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai represented the Foundation and conducted the session.

   

  Ms. Kavitha in her presentation aimed at sensitizing the participants about the importance of 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; difference between brain death, cardiac death and coma; causes of brain death; the need for organ donation; about cornea donation; importance of consent by next-of-kin for donation to take place; importance of the donor card and about MOHAN Foundation donor card registration.

   

  The participants raised several queries such as in case of brain death who should be contacted for organ donation to take place, what organs can be donated after death, whether brain transplant is a possibility and how to register for donor card.

   

  A total of 40 students attended the session and 30 of them picked up the donor card.

   

  
  
  Source-Mr. Ashok R