On 20th October 2023, MOHAN Foundation was invited to deliver an awareness talk for D Pharm students of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy. Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar from the institution organized the event and Ms Prarthana Dwivedi was the speaker, who spoke on the following topics:
Organ donation and transplantation
Brief explanation on brain death
Identification and certification of brain death
Eye Donation and skin donation
Organ allocation and sharing
Organ retrieval
Pledging organs
Role of a police in donation
Body Donation
The session ended with sharing of a motivational story, answering the queries raised by the students process to pledge organs and using the toll free helpline number.
Questions asked by the audience were as follows:
How much time required for Skin donation process?
Documents required for Eye donation?
Can old age person donate body after death and how?
Ms. Prarthana answered all the queries promptly. Close to 14 members pledged their organs. 88 students, including faculty and students of D Pharm departments attended the session. We thank Dr Sonali Sonulkar and Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar coordinator of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy for inviting us and supporting the cause of Organ Donation.