A webinar on Organ Donation conducted for ICICI Academy, Batch 2, Aurangabad

Updated on Wednesday, November 23, 2022
  • On 19th November 2022, Transplants Help The Poor Foundation and ICICI Foundation organized a webinar on organ donation for ICICI Academy students (2ndBatch). Mr. Shrikant Kale - Center Head of this academy coordinated with Ms. Prarthana Dwivedi to conduct this webinar.

     Ms. Prarthana began her session by introducing MOHAN Foundation and its activities. She then started her presentation by explaining the following contents

    1. What is organ donation?
    2. Types of donors- Living and Deceased donors
    3. Concept of Brain stem death was explained briefly
    4. Difference between organs and tissues was explained
    5. Circulatory death and what are the tissues that can be donated after circulatory death was explained
    6. Process of eyes and skin donation was explained.
    7. Donor Card and its importance
    8. MOHAN Foundation Helpline number was displayed to the audience
    9. Few stories about organ donors were shared with the audience. 

    Questions raised by the audience were as follows:

    1. Why HIV patients cannot donate their organs?
    2. Will there be a chance of using unclaimed bodies for research purpose?
    3. Procedure of brain death certification?

     The session was interactive and informative, Close to 134 members participated in the session. We would like to thank Mr. Shrikant Kale from ICICI Foundation for organizing this event.



    Source-Ms. Prarthana Dwivedi
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