Awareness Talk on Organ Donation at Govt. Model Senior Secondary School, Sector - 40 B Chandigarh

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  The participants during the session

  

  Ms. Neha Sharma Katoch explaining about donor card

  

  The participants during the session

  

  The participants during the session

  On 15^th February 2022, MOHAN Foundation was invited by Mrs. Vanita Bansal Chaudhary, NSS Program Officer, to conduct an awareness talk on organ donation for their senior students.  Around 200 students attended the session.

   

  Participants were given an introduction and presentation on organ donation and brain death by Ms. Neha Sharma Katoch.

   

  In this talk, she explained the following points: -

  • 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 facts
  • Eye donation

   

  At the end of the session, Mrs. Vanita Bansal thanked MOHAN Foundation and Ms. Neha for sharing with student’s information on a topic of great importance and relevance. Entire group got motivated and convinced to support organ donation.

  
  
  Source-Ms. Neha Sharma Katoch