Nurses play a major role in patient care at hospitals. Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH), Chennai has contributed more to Deceased Organ Donation Programme in Tamil Nadu.  Since Nurses play a major role in the organ donation process, an ongoing sensitization on organ donation for them has been initiated by Transplant coordinator’s of MOHAN Foundation. 

 

Ms.Veena, Transplant Coordinator gave a talk on concepts of Organ Donation for the Nursing Supervisors of Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital, Chennai on 10th Dec'2012. She covered the following topics in her talk

 

1. Organ Donation – Types & Age criteria.

2. Eye donation

3. Organ donation protocol followed in RGGGH

4. Brain-stem death certification

5. Organ allocation process

6. Donor card

7. Organ donor statistics

 

The transplant coordinator requested the Nursing Supervisors to help them to increase the number of eye donations at the hospital, since an average of 10 to 20 deaths were reported per day.

 

Dr. Sumana Navin, Course Director, spoke about the role of nurses in maintaining brain-stem dead patients in ICU set-up. She also thanked them for their extended support for the programme.

 

The nurses raised a question about the ischemic time of organs and use of donor card, their queries was answered. At the end the nurses pledged for a donor card and expressed their support for the noble cause organ donation. There were 17 Nursing Supervisors present for the programme.