Organ Donation awareness on Air Force Day in Nagpur

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  Participants showing their donor cards

  

  Participant showing their donor card

  

  Mr. Bulu Behera interacting with the participant

  MOHAN Foundation was invited by Mr. Kishore Khobaragade, Vayusena Nagar Nagpur, to conduct an awareness session on organ donation for air force staff members 0n the occasion  of Air Force day, on 9 October, 2015.

  Mr. Bulu Behera manned an information stall on Organ Donation. The stall was decorated with posters and banners and he explained the following points-

  • Importance and need of Organ donation:
  • Types of donations –Live and deceased donation
  • Difference between Natural death, Coma and Brain Death.
  • THO Act and myths related to Organ donation
  • Eye donation, skin donation & whole body donation
  • Importance of Donor card, Helpline number and website.

  It was a very interactive session. 25 air force personnel visited the stall. The visitors asked the following questions:-

  If we sign the consent form after transfer how organ donation can happen?

  If my relatives is not present at my death then how organ donation can happen?

  
  
  Source-Bulu Behera