32nd Transplant Coordinators' Training Programme held in Bengaluru

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  Participants and MOHAN Foundation faculty with Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman – Medical Advisory Board & Medical Director – Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd (2nd row, 3rd from left)

  

  Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram, Country Director, MOHAN Foundation presenting a memento to Dr. Vishwanath S., HOD - Nephrology, Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru

  

  Lecture on Medical-legal / Ethical Issues by Mr. Sanjay Sahay, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Grievances & Human Rights, Bengaluru (second from left). Seen here with (L to R) Dr. Sumana Navin, MOHAN Foundation, Dr. Murali S, Chief - Clinical Services and Dr. A. Olithselvan, Chairman-Division of Liver Transplantation and Consultant Hepatologist, Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru

  

  Dr. Sumana Navin, Course Director, MOHAN Foundation presenting a memento to Dr. Julius Punnen, Cardiothoracic surgeon, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bengaluru

  

  Mrs. Sujatha Niranjan, Manager- Information Systems, MOHAN Foundation explaining poster activity to the participants

  

  Poster presentation by participants

  

  Dr. A. Olithselvan, Chairman-Division of Liver Transplantation and Consultant Hepatologist, Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru presenting completion certificate to Ms. Prashanthi, Manipal Hospitals, Vijayawada

  

  Dr. A. Olithselvan presenting a memento to the MOHAN Foundation team (Left to right) Ms. Akshatha, Dr. Sumana Navin and Mrs. Sujatha Niranajan

  The 32^nd Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme was successfully held from 31^st August to 4^th September 2015 at TERI auditorium, Bengaluru. MOHAN Foundation conducted this programme on the invitation of Manipal Hospitals. There were participants from the Manipal Hospitals group – Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Goa and Bengaluru. In addition, there were also participants from other hospitals in Dharwad, Mysuru, Jalandhar, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Tamil Nadu. In total, there were 31 participants who attended the one week training programme.

   

  The training programme was inaugurated by Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman – Medical Advisory Board & Medical Director – Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. He said that the deceased donation programme was moving forward with the support of state agencies, NGOs like MOHAN Foundation and the media. He wished the participants a successful training.

   

  The faculty comprised Dr. A Olithselvan (Liver Transplantation & Hepatology), Dr. Paritosh Pandey (Neurosurgery), Dr. Geetha (Intensive Care), Dr. Vishwanath S. (Nephrology) -all from Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru, Dr. Julius Punnen from Narayana Hrudayalaya, and Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram, Dr. Sumana Navin, Mrs. Sujatha Niranjan, Ms. Akshatha from MOHAN Foundation. The guest lecture by Mr. Sanjay Sahay, IPS on medical-legal/ethical issues was thought provoking, energising and informative. He said that Registered Medical Practitioners together with transplant coordinators were the catalysts in organ donation. He added that the Transplantation of Human Organs Act was noble in intent, but poor in execution/enforcement, so the problem was not the ‘Act’, but the decision not to ‘act’. He urged the transplant coordinators to keep their eyes open so that they could help the government and their hospitals.

   

  Dr.  A. Olithselvan, Chairman-Division of Liver Transplantation and Consultant Hepatologist gave away the certificates to the participants at the valedictory function. He was very happy with the enthusiastic participation of the group in the training. He said it was a pleasure to associate with MOHAN Foundation with the goal of promoting organ donation in the country and added that this programme would help them kick-start the process.

   

  One of the participants summed up the training experience in the feedback form by saying, “The training programme was excellent and I personally feel that I got a golden chance to improve my skills to do the best.”

  
  
  Source-Dr. Sumana Navin