Organ Donation Awareness at Sathyabama University, Chennai

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  Ms. Sujatha Suriyamoorthi addressing the audience

  

  Participants at the event

  

  Ms Sujatha, Ms Karishma and Mr Varun with a few participants

  

  Participants with their donor cards

  

  A group picture from the event

  

  Ms Sujatha and Ms Angeline interacting with students

  On August 13^th 2019, the Organ Donation day, Madras Mylapore Round Table 3 and its sister wing, Madras Mylapore Ladies Circle 4, organized an awareness program on organ donation and transplantation at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology.

   

  Ms. Sujatha Suriyamoorthi, Manager - Information Systems (MIS), MOHAN Foundation was the speaker. Ms. Angeline Racheal, student of MMM College of Health Sciences who is currently interning at the Foundation accompanied the speaker. Mrs. Karishma Rohra, Chairperson, Madras Mylapore Ladies Circle 4 and Mr. Varun Rohra President of Madras Mylapore Round Table 3 were present as well. Around 200 students from the first year MBA class and 4 teachers were the audience.  

   

  Mrs. Karishma addressed the participants and spoke about the various social initiatives taken by the Ladies Circle. She also talked about their newest initiative ‘Love for Life’ - an awareness campaign to spread the message of organ donation. Following that
  Ms. Sujatha began her talk with an introduction about MOHAN Foundation and explained about the concepts of organ and tissue donation, brain death, donor card, the law - Transplantation of Human Organs Act, role of family in organ donation.

   

  The program ended with a Q&A session in which the queries raised by the students were clarified. 14 students voluntarily registered themselves as organ donors and received donor cards.

  
  
  Source-Angeline Racheal