Awareness Talk on Organ Donation at Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector-42 Chandigarh

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  The participants during the session

  

  Ms. Neha Sharma explaining about organ donation

  

  Participants during the session

  On 6^th January 2023, MOHAN Foundation was invited by Dr. Mehr Chand, NSS Program Officer to conduct an awareness talk on organ donation for their NSS volunteers.  Around 160 volunteers attended the session.

   

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

   

  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, NSS volunteers on the behalf of the audience thanked MOHAN Foundation and Ms. Neha Sharma for sharing with student’s information on a topic of great importance and relevance.

  
  
  Source-Ms. Neha Sharma