Organ Donation Awareness for Members of Trimruti Nagar Yoga Foundation, Nagpur

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  Mr. Bulu Behera addressing the Yoga Committee Members

  

  Audience for awareness talk

  

  Group photo

  

  A participant supporting the cause

  Mr. Babu Wankhede, a Yoga teacher at the Trimruti Nagar Yoga Foundation, requested Mr. Bulu Behera, Transplant Coordinator of MOHAN Foundation, to organize an awareness session on organ donation for the yoga foundation members. The event was organized on 18^th and 19^th October 2021 in the morning and Mr. Behera addressed two different group of people in the Trimurti Nagar Garden.

  Mr. Bulu Behera began the session by introducing MOHAN Foundation, its mission and vision, and proceeded to explain the following:

  • Concepts of organ and tissue donation
  • The types of death 
  • Brain death declaration, apnea test and other clinical tests
  • Procedures of deceased and live organ donation
  • Barrier to organ donation
  • Myths and facts related to organ donation
  • Role of ZTCC in organ donation
  • Transplant Law
  • Importance of donor card

  Mr. Behera also gave information about body donation and hand transplant. On 18^th October, 18 people were present and 6 of them pledged to donate organs, signed consent forms, and took donor cards; on 19^th October, 7 people out of the 19 present pledged for organ donation.

  
  
  Source-Mr. Bulu Behera