Organ donation awareness talk at BDS Vircon, Chennai

• Mr. Siva Shankar started program with a set of questions about what the employees of the company know about Organ Donation in general. Before that he played a video on Tamil Nadu state who leads ahead in Organ Donation. To clear their doubts Mr. Siva Shankar started explaining about Organ Donation and its concepts. He explained about the statistics of India compared to other countries in Organ Donation.

  The topics that were discussed:

  1. The organs that can be donated at the time Natural Death and Brain Death
  2. The Organ Donation and its age criteria
  3. TRANSTAN (The Tamil Nadu Government Authority who allocates the Organs)
  4.  Donor card
  5. Causes of Brain Death

  The talk went on for 40 minutes and followed by Q & A session. The questions that were raised:

  1. Can Organs be donated when the patient is suffering from cancer?
  2. If the friends number is given in emergency contact details of the donor card, will organ donation takes place if he/she gives consent?
  3. When can organ donation not take place?

  These questions were answered clearly to the participants. The program ended with a donor video who gave his/her organs that saved many lives. 30 employees took part in the program 14 of them took their donor cards to support organ donation.

  MOHAN Foundation thanks Ms. Divya of BDS Vircon for organizing this awareness session. 

  
  
  Source-Siva Shankar T. S.