Vikadan helps to spread awareness on Organ Donation at Meenakshi College of Engineering

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  Mr. Jeyabal, Transplant Coordinator explaining about organ donation

  

  Mr. Srikumar, Project Mangaer(Cadaver Transplant Programme) explaining about importance of donor card

  

  Students from Meenakshi college of engineering pledged in donor card

  VIKADAN- a leading Tamil magazine organized the organ donation awareness camp by putting up information stalls in different colleges at Chennai. They invited Cadaver Transplant Programme (CTP) to set an organ donation awareness stall at Meenakshi College of Engineering, KK Nagar, Chennai  on 25th January 2014.  Mr. Sree Kumar, Project Manager (CTP) and Mr. Jeyabal M, Transplant Coordinator MOHAN Foundation and manned the stall.

   

  The following topics were explained to the college students:

  • Importance of organ donation
  •  Difference between Natural death & Brain death
  • Age to donate organs
  • Procedure  of eye removal after cardiac death
  • Importance  of donor card

   

  Students from different departments visited the stall and pledged for organ donation.  Totally 320 members visited the stall and 302 of them picked the donor card.

  
  
  Source-Jeyabal M.