Organ donation awareness session at Indian Medical Association (IMA), Dharamdaspeth, Nagpur.

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  Dr. Ravi Wankhede addressing the participants

  

  Mr. Bulu Behera is being felicitated by the President of Inner Wheel Club of Nagpur

  

  Ms. Nisa Dua, Club Secretary holding donor card

  On the inauguration of Inner Wheel Club East, Nagpur Mrs. Nisha Dua, secretary of Inner Wheel club invited Dr. Ravi Wankhede and Mr. Bulu Behera from MOHAN Foundation, to deliver talk on organ donation and transplantation on22nd April, 2023. Program was held at Indian Medical Association (IMA), Nagpur. Dr. Ravi Wankhede moderated the talk and Mr. Bulu Behera gave information about importance of donor card and importance of signed consent form.

  Dr. Ravi Wankhede gave information to participants which are given below:

  • What is organ donation? Who can donate an organ?
  • What is brain death and natural death?
  • After brain death, which organs and tissues can be donated?
  • After natural death, which tissues can be donated, and what are the time factors?
  • What is the difference between coma and brain death?
  • Is organ donation possible if the patient is in a coma?
  • Live person, which organs can be donated, and what are the criteria for live donation?
  • Information regarding body donation and eye donation
  • What are the legal and ethical implications of organ donation?
  • What does the Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994 say about organ donation?
  • What is the role of NOTTO, ROTO, SOTTO, ZTCC, and the MOHAN Foundation in organ donation?
  • Historical aspect of organ donation.
  • What are the time factors for organ donation?

  It was an interactive session and the participants asked the following questions:

  • Which organ what time factors for organ transplant?
  • After organ transplant what is the life span of patient?
  • After natural death which tissues can be donate?

  In the end, Mr. Bulu requested all the visitors to use the Foundation's website and helpline number for any information on organ donation or for online pledging of organs. About 20 inner wheel club members attended session and 4 of them signed up for organ donation. MOHAN Foundation thanks Mrs. Nisha Dua, secretary of same club for supporting the noble cause of organ donation.

   

   

  
  
  Source-Mr. Bulu Behera