Conducted Organ Donation Awareness Session at NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy, Nerul, Navi Mumbai

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  Ms. Prarthana explaining about organ donation

  

  The session in progress

   

  On 20 th October 2023, MOHAN Foundation was invited to deliver an awareness talk

  for D Pharm students of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy. Mrs. Pratiksha

  Wasankar from the institution organized the event and Ms Prarthana Dwivedi was

  the speaker, who spoke on the following topics:

   Organ donation and transplantation

   Brief explanation on brain death

   Identification and certification of brain death

   Eye Donation and skin donation

   Organ allocation and sharing

   Organ retrieval

   Pledging organs

   Role of a police in donation

   Body Donation

  The session ended with sharing of a motivational story, answering the queries raised

  by the students process to pledge organs and using the tollfree helpline number.

  Questions asked by the audience were as follows:

   How much time required for Skin donation process?

   Documents required for Eye donation?

   Can old age person donate body after death and how?

  Ms. Prarthana answered all the queries promptly. Close to 14 members pledged their

  organs. 88 students, including faculty and students of D Pharm departments

  attended the session. We thank Dr Sonali Sonulkar and Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar

  coordinator of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy for inviting us and supporting the

  cause of Organ Donation.

  On 20th October 2023, MOHAN Foundation was invited to deliver an awareness talk for D Pharm students of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy. Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar from the institution organized the event and Ms Prarthana Dwivedi was the speaker, who spoke on the following topics:

   Organ donation and transplantation

   Brief explanation on brain death

   Identification and certification of brain death

   Eye Donation and skin donation

   Organ allocation and sharing

   Organ retrieval

   Pledging organs

   Role of a police in donation

   Body Donation

  The session ended with sharing of a motivational story, answering the queries raised by the students process to pledge organs and using the toll free helpline number.

  Questions asked by the audience were as follows:

   How much time required for Skin donation process?

   Documents required for Eye donation?

   Can old age person donate body after death and how?

  Ms. Prarthana answered all the queries promptly. Close to 14 members pledged their organs. 88 students, including faculty and students of D Pharm departments attended the session. We thank Dr Sonali Sonulkar and Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar  coordinator of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy for inviting us and supporting the cause of Organ Donation.

   

  
  
  Source-Prarthana Dwivedi