On 25^th November 2022, Ms. Rashmi Shetty was invited to conduct an organ donation awareness talk for ICICI Academy. This programme was organised by Transplant Help the Poor Foundation and ICICI Foundation. Mr. Gurucharan Vijan – Center Head of ICICI Academy organized this programme. The event was divided into 2 batches, morning batch consisted of 150 trainees and staff, afternoon batch consisted of 180 members. Totally 330 people attended this session.

Rashmi addressed the gathering and introduced herself and MOHAN Foundation. She then kept the audience engaged throughout the session by discussing the following in detail:

• Concept of Organ Donation
• Organ donation and its need in the society
• When and how does organ donation take place
• Organs that can be donated during life and after death
• Transplant waiting list in India
• Concept of Brain death and Circulatory death
• Difference between brain death and coma
• Eye and skin donation process

 

Over all the session was very interactive where participants enthusiastically contributed to the discussion and asked many queries. To name a few: 

1. Within what duration of time the organs should be donated?
2. Can a transplant recipient pledge his organs?
3. Will I get money if I donate my organs?

 

We thank ICICI Foundation and Mr. Gurucharan Vijan – Center Head for organizing this event and inviting us.