Awareness Session on Organ Donation conducted at Cloudnine Hospital, Whitefield Unit, Bengaluru

• 

  Ms. Ranjini Shankar MS addressing the participants

  

  Session in progress

  

  Majority of the staff signed up for organ donation

  On 31^st October 2022, MOHAN Foundation conducted an awareness session on Organ Donation at Cloudnine Hospital Whitefield, Bengaluru. Mrs. Ranjini Shankar was the key resource.

   

  Mrs. Ranjini Shankar MS, initiated the session by introducing MOHAN Foundation, its mission, vision and kept the audience engaged throughout the session. The following concepts were explained in detail

  • Concepts of organ and tissue donation,
  • The types of death i.e., cardiac death and brain death
  •  Brain Death and the procedure to declare Brain Death through Apnoea test
  •  Procedure of deceased organ donation and live organ donation.
  • Procedure of skin and bone donation.
  • Barriers in the process of organ donation
  • Myths and facts related to organ donation and its impact on the society
  • Importance of Donor card

   

  Mrs. Ranjini Shankar MS gave a brief insight into MOHAN Foundation courses and motivated the students to pledge for organ donation

   

  Around 32 members attended the session. 14 of them supported the cause by taking the pledge for organ donation. Brochures and donor cards were distributed at the end of the session.

   

  MOHAN Foundation thanks the staff of Cloudnine Hospital Whitefield Unit Bengaluru for their support towards the cause of Organ donation

  
  
  Source-Mrs. Ranjini Shankar MS