A sensitization programme was organized at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai on 24^th July, 2013. It was organized for the nurses from the Trauma and Head Injury Intensive Care Unit, Neurology ward by Mr. Ananth R and Ms. Sunitha A T, Transplant Coordinators, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai.

Ms. Sunitha A T conducted the session. The main topics that were covered in the session were: what is organ donation, who can be a donor, what is brain death, difference between brain death and coma, difference between brain death and cardiac death, what are the organs and tissues that can be donated after brain death, importance of pledging your organs through a donor card and the protocol for organ donation followed at RGGGH, Chennai. There was active participation from all the nurses. Apart from the frequently asked questions one of the main questions raised was: if death due to cardiac arrest happens at home who should they contact for eye donation to take place.

Further; Mr. Ananth R elaborated on the role of transplant coordinators and nurses in the situation of maintaining a brain dead patient, also the vital role they play during the removal and transplantation of an organ.

A total of 17 participants were present for the session. They were given the donor card which they duly signed and promised to carry with them.