Organ Donation Awareness as part of Diwali Celebrations in Nagpur

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  Organ donation stall during the Diwali celebration organized by Matrix Warriors Organisation

  

  Mr. Bulu Behera with distributed brochures and donor cards

  

  Visitors who pledged as organ donors

  On 24^th October 2021, Matrix Warriors Organization organized a pre-Diwali celebration. As part of this, Mr. Amey Lohi, Secretary of the organization invited MOHAN Foundation to put up a stall to educate the public on organ donation at Women’s College in Nandanvan, Nagpur. The stall was equipped with banners, information brochures, and donor cards.

  MOHAN Foundation’s Transplant Coordinator Mr. Bulu Behera shared information about the following with the stall visitors:  

  • MOHAN Foundation – activities, mission, vision
  • Organ donation and tissue donation - concepts
  • Difference between coma and brain death
  • Difference between natural death and brain death
  • The organ donation process
  • Organs and tissues that can be donated after natural death and brain death
  • Role of ZTCC
  • Role of NOTTO, ROTTO, SOTTO in organ donation and transplantation
  • Transplant Law
  • Importance of donor card
  • Using MOHAN Foundation’s help line number and website

  Around 1000 people visited the stall and 20 of them signed up as organ donors. MOHAN Foundation thanks the Matrix Warriors Organization for the opportunity.

  
  
  Source-Mr. Bulu Behera