Information Desk on Organ Donation at GMCH Nagpur

• On 11^th November 2019, the Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur invited MOHAN Foundation to speak about organ donation to the out patients and relatives visiting the hospital. Dr. Naresh Tiripude HOD of the Anesthesia department of Government Medical College had extended the invitation to put up an information stall with information brochures, donor cards standees and banners. Mr. Bulu Behera, Transplant Coordinator managed the stall.

  Information given to outpatients:

  • Types of death
  • Organs and tissues that can be donated after brain death after natural death and while living
  • How does an organ failure patient register for a transplant and where is the waitlist available?
  • Who can donate organs and what is the importance of a donor card?
  • Activities of MOHAN Foundation
  • Using the Helpline number and website of MOHAN Foundation

  Around 20 patients and relatives visited the stall. After understanding about organ donation, 8 of them took consent form to consult with their families and 2 patients signed consent form and received donor cards.

  Question asked by stall visitors:

  • What is brain death?
  • What are the organs that can be donated brain death?
  • What is pancreas?

  
  
  Source-Bulu Behera