Trainee Nurses from Kilpauk Medical College learn about Organ Donation and their role

• Ms. A. T. Sunitha, Transplant Coordinator MOHAN Foundation conducted an Awareness Programme on 23^rd October 2013 for the nurses in the Neurology ward (N11) from Kilpauk Medical College & hospital nurses who were placed in Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) for  one month training. The topic of the session was Concepts of Organ Donation.

   

  During her talk she explained the following topics 

  1. Who can be a donor?
  2. What is Natural Death?
  3. What is Brain Death?
  4. What are the differences between Brain death and Coma?
  5. What organs and the tissues can be donated after Brain Death?
  6. Importance of a Donor card

   

  She also explained  the role of nurses in maintaining a potential brain death donor. 25 nurses participated in the programme and 18 of them expressed their wish to pledge for the donor card by signing the form.

   

  Queries raised during the interaction were:

  1. Who should be contacted for eye donation?
  2. How to register for organ transplant?
  3. To whom should we inform our wish for organ donation? 

  
  
  Source-A. T. Sunitha