Awareness Talk on Organ Donation at Govt. Model Senior Secondary School, Sector -15 Chandigarh

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  Ms. Neha Sharma explaining about organ donation

  

  The participants during the session

  

  The participants during the session

  

  Ms. Neha Sharma is being felicitated

  

  Group photo

  On 27^th December 2022, MOHAN Foundation was invited by Mr. Sukhpreet Singh, NSS Program Officer to conduct an awareness talk on organ donation for their NSS volunteers. Around 90 students attended the session.

   

  At the beginning of the session, Mr. Sukhpreet Singh, NSS Programme Officer Govt. Model Senior Secondary School Sector-15, welcomed all the participants and introduced Ms. Neha Sharma Katoch. He then invited her to begin the session.

   

  Ms. Neha Sharma Katoch began the session by explaining the full form of MOHAN. She informed the audience that MOHAN is not someone’s name but an acronym. She explained the basic concepts of organ donation and transplantation with the help of a simple PowerPoint presentation.

   

  The following topics were explained in detail:

  • Organ donation and its need
  • When and how does organ donation take place
  • Organs that can be donated during life and after death
  • The transplant waiting list in India
  • Brain death
  • Difference between brain death and coma
  • Contraindications to organ donation
  • Transplant Law
  • Role of MOHAN Foundation
  • Organ donation Myths and Fact
  • Eye Donation

   

  At the end, Mr. Sukhpreet Singh, NSS Program Officer gave the vote of thanks on behalf of NSS Govt. Model Senior Secondary School Sector-15, and thanked Ms. Neha for the greatly informative session.

  
  
  Source-Ms. Neha Sharma