Organ Donation Awareness during Ganesh Puja at Platinum Green, Jaitala Nagar

• Mr. Ravindra Swoji, Treasurer of Platinum Green, a residential society in Jaitala Nagar, Nagpur invited MOHAN Foundation to deliver an awareness talk on organ donation during the Ganesh Puja celebrations at the society.

  The talk was organized on 18^th September 2021 at Ganesh Chowk and Mr. Bulu Behera, Transplant Coordinator of MOHAN Foundation was the speaker. He covered the following topics during his talk addressing the residents of the society:

  • Introduction to MOHAN Foundation
  • Organ donation and tissue donation
  • Difference between coma and brain death
  • Difference between natural death and drain 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 and SOTTO in organ donation and transplantation
  • Transplant Law
  • MOHAN Foundation’ activities
  • Importance of donor card
  • Using MOHAN Foundation’s helpline number and website

  Around 55 residents were present and 15 of them signed up as organ donors.

  
  
  Source-Mr. Bulu Behera