Organ Donation Awareness Programme at Sacred Heart Nursing College

• To inculcate the message of organ donation among the nursing students, the Sacred Heart Nursing College organized an awareness programme on 20^th May 2017. Mr. S.Venkatesh, Transplant Coordinator, Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai was invited to conduct the awareness session for the students. The following topics were addressed during the session.

  • Types of Donors
  • Difference between Circulatory Death and Brain Death
  • Difference between Brain Death and Coma
  • Organs that can be donated
  • Importance of Donor Card

  A group of 100 budding nursing professionals attended the programme and pledged as organ donors at the end of the programme. 

  
  
  Source-Venkatesh S.