MOHAN Foundation, transplant coordinators organized a sensitization program on organ donation for the students of School of Nursing, MMC. Around 174, students who are pursuing their Diploma in Nursing attended this session.

 

Topics:

• The concepts of organ donation
• When can a person donate his/her organs
• Organ donation procedures
• Donor card
• Organ donation Statistics
• Role of a Nurse in transplant coordination
• How to improve eye donation

 

Questions raised by the students:

• Which organ will be removed first?
• What is the cold ischemic time of each organ?
• What is the use of donor card?
• How many times an organ can be transplanted?

 

At the end of the program all the students expressed their support by pledging for a donor card.