On 24^th December 2013 Dr. Ravi Wankhede, Director, MOHAN Foundation Nagpur Center was invited by Dr. Pranita Manwatkar at Ashiwini Kidney & Dialysis Centre to give a talk on organ donation. He was  asked to sensitize Dialysis assistance technician students about deceased organ donation. 

 

Dr.Ravi Wankhede gave a presentation which highlighted -  organs can be donated after, brain death, natural death & live donation. He made the students understand that  after brain death it is impossible to come back his life. Yet a  brain death patient can help the several people to their life. During  the talk Dr. Ravi Wankhede said it is possible if the relatives of the brain death patient consent to donate the organs such as kidney, liver, Pancreas, eye, skin, bone, etc.

13 participants sign the pledge form out off 16. After the talk  students discussed the following question.

• Why is the unusable kidney not retrieve after kidney transplant?

• Brain Death is temporary or permanent? 

• If the patient was suffering from liver cancer, then after his brain death he/she can donate his liver?