Conducted Organ Donation Awareness Session at Oriental Education Society Sanpada, Navi Mumbai

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  Ms. Prarthana addressing the staff

  

  The participants during the session

  

  Group photo

  On 22^ndNovember 2023, MOHAN Foundation was invited to deliver an awareness talk for teaching staff of Oriental Education Society and for M Pharm students of Oriental college of Pharmacy, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai. Mrs. Vishakha Susre 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 Bone donation process?
  • Documents required for Organ donation?
  • Can old age person donate cornea after death and how?

  Ms.Prarthana answered all the queries promptly. Around 92 members pledged their organs. Total 114 students, including faculty of M Pharm departments attended the session. We thank   Mrs. Vishakha Susre coordinator of Oriental college of Pharmacy and Oriental Education Society for inviting us and supporting the cause of Organ Donation.

  
  
  Source-Prarthana Dwivedi