Awareness Talk on Organ Donation at Kendriya Vidyalaya School, Sector -29 Chandigarh, Session-2

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  Ms. Neha Sharma Katoch speaking at the session

  

  The session in progress

  

  Group photo

  On 30^th March 2022, MOHAN Foundation was invited by Mr. Rampal Kumar, NSS Program Officer to conduct an awareness talk on organ donation for their senior students.  Around 30 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

   

  The entire group got motivated and convinced to support organ donation. The awareness talk ended with a vote of thanks by Mr. Rampal. He encouraged the students to aware the society about organ donation and also how transplant can change lives are extremely powerful. He ended up saying donate organs is a generous and a worthwhile decision that can save lives.

  
  
  Source-Ms. Neha Sharma Katoch