Campaigning in RTO of Nagpur – Session 66, November

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  Mr Bulu Behera interacting with the audience

  

  Audience at the session

  The Regional Transport Officer of Giripeth, Nagpur, Mr. Dinkar Manwar, invited MOHAN Foundation to conduct an awareness session on organ donation. The programme was conducted on 20^th November 2019 and the public who had come to apply for vehicle registration and driving license were the audience.

  Mr. Bulu Behera, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation delivered a talk on Organ Donation. In his talk he explained the following points:

  • What is organ donation and its importance in saving lives
  • Who can donate and when it is possible to become a donor
  • Law on organ donation and transplantation
  • Difference between brain death, natural death and coma
  • Myths related to organ donation
  • Stories of donors from Nagpur
  • Transplant hospitals and tissue banks in Nagpur
  • Importance of donor card, MOHAN Foundation helpline number and website

  The audience asked the following questions:

  • How would and can the public believe that a patient is brain dead?
  • What are the organs that can be donated after brain death?
  • What is the age limit for skin donation?

  Around 24 people were present and 3 of them signed consent forms and received their donor cards.

  MOHAN Foundation thanks the RTO for the opportunity.

  
  
  Source-Ishwarya Thyagarajan