Ever Green Association, Thiruvallur celebrates its first anniversary with an awareness program on organ donation

• On 4^th May 2014, to mark their first anniversary the Ever Green Association organized an Organ Donation Awareness camp at Sri Gannambal  Vidyalaya, Thiruvallur. Ever Green Association is run by a  of group youngsters. This organization started on 26th April 2013and concentrates on creating awareness to the public on social causes. Mr.  Bharat, member of Ever Green Association approached the Cadaver Transplant Programme to help them. Ms.Kavitha S, Marketing Coordinator and Mr. Prakash K, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai were deputed to man the stall.

   

   Mr. Prakash and Ms. Kavitha manned the stall and they interacted with the public in one to one interaction.

  The following topics were explained to the group:

  • Importance and need of organ donation
  • Types of donations – live and deceased donation
  • Difference between Natural Death, Coma and Brain Death
  • Organs that can be donated in cardiac death and brain death
  • Eye donation
  • Preservation time of organs
  • Importance of Donor card, helpline number
  • TNOS website
  • Transplant Registry

   

  Near 200 people walked into the stall and registered themselves as Organ Donors.

   

  
  
  Source-Kavitha S