Awareness talk on Organ Donation at Alica Nagar, Lokhandwala Complex, Kandivali, Mumbai

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  Ms. Shamika being invited for the talk

  

  Ms. Shamika talking about organ donation

  On 26th March 2023, an organ donation awareness was conducted at the mourning ceremony of Mr. Chandrakant Chintaman Khare. Ms. Ujwala Nile invited Ms. Shamika Singh from MOHAN Foundation to speak on the topic of Organ Donation. Dr. Vijay Moon was also invited to conduct awareness regarding heart diseases and issues related to diabetes. 

  Ms. Shamika addressed the following topics in his talk:

  • What is organ donation? Who can donate an organ?
  • What is brain death and natural death?
  • After brain death, which organs and tissues can be donated?
  • After natural death, which tissues can be donated, and what are the time factors?
  • What is the difference between coma and brain death?
  • Is organ donation possible if the patient is in a coma?
  • Live person, which organs can be donated, and what are the criteria for live donation?
  • Information regarding body donation and eye donation
  • What are the legal and ethical implications of organ donation?
  • What does the Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994 say about organ donation?
  • What is the role of NOTTO, ROTO, SOTTO, ZTCC, and the MOHAN Foundation in organ donation?
  • Historical aspect of organ donation.
  • What are the time factors for organ donation?

  Around 400 people joined the session and asked questions related to organ donation 

  • Whom to contact for organ donation?
  • What is the physical fitness for kidney donation?
  • What is the age criteria for organ donation

  
  
  Source-Ms. Shamika Singh