On August 7, 2015 an awareness talk was organized in Amity International School (Sector-43, Gurgaon) by MOHAN Foundation in collaboration with Times of India (TOI). The talk was a part of TOI's initiative "Organ Donation Day".
The initiative has been taken to create awareness about Organ Donation among the people of India. The campaign aims to educate the masses about Organ Donation (what is organ donation, how can people go about it, what are myths surrounding organ donation, etc.) and encourage them to sign up as Organ Donors. The campaign was launched in 2013 and an overwhelming response was received as more than 60,000 people signed up as organ donors in just 9 days. In 2014, the total went up to 85,000. This year the campaign was launched on 1st Aug and will continue till the Organ Donation Day - 13th August.
Sangeeta Sethi, Event Coordinator at Amity International School coordinated the session.
The session was conducted by Ms Pallavi Kumar and Chaitanya Jonker. Pallavi started the session by asking questions like who all have heard about organ donation, which organs can be donated so as to gauge the information level of the students. Further, she asked the students if anyone from their families got any transplant done and asked them to narrate the same if so. Two students shared that some relative of theirs had undergone a kidney transplant. As the session got under way, she explained the other concepts of organ donation and transplantation primarily focusing on the types of donations, how to diagnose brain death, the Transplant Law of India and difference between cardiac and brain death. Special mention about eye donation and how each of us could contribute towards the cause was also stressed upon. Chaitanya addressed the various myths related to organ donation.
A 5-minute video on brain death was shown when the concept of brain death was being addressed. The students were quite keen to know more about the concept.
There was a volley of questions from their side at the end of the session. In fact, one student wanted to know why the body does not reject a new organ after the transplant as it is a foreign body.
There were approximately 250 students from classes X and XI.
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