On 19th December, 2013 an awareness session on organ donation and transplantation was organized at the Conference Hall of Loyola College of Social Sciences, Sreekaryam, Trivandrum. Loyola College  was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1963. MSW students of Loyola College invited Kerala Network for Organ Sharing (KNOS), Mrithasanjeevani, Kerala to conduct the session as a part of their X’mas Celebration.

 

The programme started with the welcome speech delivered by Fr. Renjith, Vice-principal Loyola College. Mr. Aneesh P V, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation deputed at Trivandrum Medical College, Trivandrum represented KNOS and addressed the gathering.

 

Mr. Aneesh in his presentation spoke about the importance of organ donation; about live and deceased organ donation; about the difference between brain death, coma and cardiac death; about pledging organs through a donor card and about the role played by Mrithasanjeevani in strengthening the deceased organ donation programme in the State of Kerala.

The participants raised several questions. Few of them being:

How can a patient register with KNOS?

Why does the family have to give consent? 

 

Around 50 students participated in the event and all of them signed the donor card.