Organ Donation Day celebrated at Shalinitai Meghe Superspeciality Centre, Wardha

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  Dr. Ravi Wankhede with other dignitaries on the dais

  

  The Chief Superintendent of the hospital with his donor card

  

  A nurse with her donor card

  

  Staff of the hospital who signed up as organ donors

  On the occasion of Organ Donation Day, Shalinitai Meghe Superspeciality Centre in Wardha invited Dr. Ravi Wankhede, Director of MOHAN Foundation, Nagpur to deliver a talk about organ donation and transplantation. The talk organized for the nurses and other staff was held on 13^th August 2021 at the conference hall of the hospital.

  Dr. Wankhede gave information about the following:

  • MOHAN Foundation’s profile, its mission and vision, operations
  • Organ donation and transplantation – what, why, when and how
  • Cardiac death, brain death, and coma
  • Organs and tissues that can be donated
  • Age criteria for donation
  • Time factor in organ donation
  • Transplant law
  • Role of ZTCC
  • Process to register as organ donor
  • Using the Foundation’s website and helpline number for more information

  Approximately 100 hospital staff were present and 20 of them pledged to donate organs and collected donor cards.

  
  
  Source-Mr. Bulu Behera