Talk on Organ Donation and Transplantation at Central Railway Ajani

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  Ms. Kanchan explaining about organ donation

  

  Participants at the talk

  

  Mr. Jyoti Kumar Satisja, Senior Divisional Security Commissioner of Central Railway Ajani showing donor card

  

  Central railway security staffs are pledged for organ donation

  

  Group photo

  On 7^th November 2016 MOHAN Foundation conducted a talk on Organ Donation and Transplantation. This was done at the request of Mr. Jyoti Kumar Satisja, Senior Divisional Security Commissioner of Central Railway Ajani.

   Ms. Kanchan Shewde, Transplant Coordinator of MOHAN Foundation, Nagpur Center represented MOHAN Foundation. She gave a talk through audio & visual means. She gave information about need for organs, the legal and ethical aspects of organ donation and the process of pledging organs. She explained the difference between cardiac death and brain death, which organ can be donated after cardiac death and brain death. The importance of Donor card how it helps people to donate organs and create awareness, the value of wearing a helmet. She requested the audience to use MOHAN Foundation website and helpline number to gain more understanding on the subject.

  The session ended with an appeal on how they can be part of this noble cause by pledging the organ and how they can help others in joining the cause.  40 central railway security staff attended the session and 30 of them picked a donor card. 

   

  Question asked by participants:

  1)  Why organs cannot be sold?

  2) If I donate organ then can my family know who will be recipient of my organ?

  3) Why is organ recipient list not shown to donor family?

  
  
  Source-Kanchan Shewde