On August 10, 2015, MOHAN Foundation conducted a talk on organ donation for the students of Amity International School, Saket, New Delhi. The talk was part of an ongoing event titled, 'Call to Action,' a 13 day awareness campaign on organ donation, an initiative of The Times of India (TOI) in partnership with Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute and MOHAN Foundation, the NGO partner.
As part of this effort, TOI proposes to observe August 13, 2015, as Organ Donation Day.The objective of the campaign is to create awareness around organ donation and get more people to register as donors.
The session was conducted by Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi and her audience were approximately 150 students of eleventh class. The students were taken step wise through one on one dialogue on concepts of organ donation and transplantation. Questions were put to audience and they were encouraged to answer. It was heartening to see the response of the students as every question that they answered showed sensibility towards a complex issue like organ donation.
Students also asked many questions, to name a few: how are organs allocated, do rich people get preference over the poor, what is the difference between brain death and coma, do organs get rejected by the body, what is the importance of signing a donor card if near blood relatives consensus is required, what happens to those people who do not have near blood relatives and want to donate and signing up for organ donation should be an individual's decision and not dependent on relatives consensus.
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