On September 8^th, 2014 an awareness session on organ donation was conducted at the office of Thomas Cook in Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon by MOHAN Foundation, Delhi-NCR.

 

Thomas Cook (India) Ltd is the leading integrated travel and travel related financial services company in the country offering a broad spectrum of services that include Foreign Exchange, Corporate Travel, MICE, Leisure Travel, Insurance, Visa & Passport services and E-Business. The company set up its first office in India in 1881.TCIL's footprint currently extends to over 235 locations (including 15 airport counters) in 99 cities across India, Mauritius & Sri Lanka and is supported by a strong partner network of 114 Gold Circle Partners and 165 Preferred Sales Agents in over 136 cities across India.

 

Dr. Muneet addressed the session by asking "How many of them had heard about organ donation and brain death and what they understood of it. She then explained the concept of organ donation and who could be an organ donor, she also presented the statistics of the deceased organ donation worldwide and emphasized that the main reason for such appalling deceased donation rate in the country was due to lack of public awareness and that the take away from the session would be the message of organ donation. She also spoke about some general myths related to organ donation and clarified them with facts.

 

Following that she explained the causes and concept of brain death in a very simple and easy to comprehend manner and showed a video clip on 'Brain Death'.

 

Queries like difference between coma and brain death, success rate of transplantation, what tests are done to diagnose brain death and difference between cardiac death and brain death were handled in a professional manner.

 

11 staff from the organization attended the session and 17 donor cards were picked up.