Axis Bank, Mylapore organized an Awareness session on Organ Donation for their employees on 28^th July 2014. Ms. Uma,   of Human Resources Department invited MOHAN Foundation to deliver the talk.

 

The Programme started at 4:30pm in the Conference hall with a welcome address given by Ms. Uma.  Following that Dr. Hemal, Quality Assurance Officer of MOHAN Foundation delivered a talk on Organ Donation.  In her talk she explained the following:

• Concepts of Organ Donation
• Types of Organ Donation- Live and Deceased Donation
• Difference between Brain death, Coma and Cardiac death
• Importance of Donor Card
• Statistics of Organ Donation
• Tissues and Organs that can Donated
• Toll Free Helpline number and MOHAN Foundation website
• Activities of MOHAN Foundation

 

The participants asked several questions which are as follows:

Can the donated organ be given to family member?

What is the reason for heart Failure?

What is the value of a registry?

Does the recipient know the donor?

 

Totally 29 members participated in the programme and 13 wished to pledge their Organs and picked the Donor Card.