On August 24, 2016, MOHAN Foundation was invited to address the employees of Benetton India Pvt. Ltd. on organ donation at its corporate office located in Infocity, Sector-34, Gurgaon.
Benetton Group is one of the best-known fashion companies in the world that comprises of three brands namely United Colors of Benetton, Under Colors of Benetton and Sisley. The Benetton Group has its headquarters at Ponzano Veneto, Italy and Asia's corporate office is placed at Infocity, Sector 34, Gurgaon.
Ms. Namrata Wakhloo, Head CSR and Sustainability took the initiative to organise the session. She has pledged to donate her organs by signing MOHAN Foundation's donor card 2 years back and supports organ donation.
Dr. Muneet Kaur Sahi began the session by introducing MOHAN Foundation and its objectives and activities. Then she handed over the session to Ms Chaitanya, who began by asking the audience the need to donate organs in order to gauge their level of information about the topic. Many came up with answers like to save someone’s life, to help others, etc. She then presented them with the statistics that showed the huge gap between demand and supply of the organs in our country.
The audience was then informed who can be an organ donor and what all organs/tissues can be donated after brain death/cardiac death. This lead to a discussion about what brain death is. Many of them had heard about the term, but lacked clarity. Chaitanya showed the 5 minutes video on brain death that provided a comprehensive understanding to all. She then explained the THO Act, contraindications to organ donation, causes of brain death and myths related to organ donation. Special stress was laid on the concept of eye donation.
The audience came up with many queries like who is charged for the amount that is being waved off for the donor family, how are appropriate recipients recognised for transplantation etc The questions were handled by the resource persons. Overall the session was quite interactive.
15 participants attended the session and 9 donor cards were taken.
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