On 5th October, 2013 an awareness session on organ donation and transplantation was conducted at Stella Maris College, Chennai for the 2nd year under graduate students from the Department of Social Work.
The session started off with the students sharing their knowledge and views about the issue. After which; Ms. Sunitha A T, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai explained to them in detail about organ donation; about brain death; the difference between cardiac death, brain death and coma; what organs and tissues can be donated; and importance of a donor card. Also, a short film and a flash presentation on organ donation were screened to further emphasise the importance of pledging ones organs.
After the talk the students were divided into four groups with 11 members in each and they were assigned a task of conceptualizing and creating posters with the aim of promoting organ donation. They were given 30 minutes to complete the task. 4 creative posters with messages were created and each group presented it to the gathering.
At the end of the session Ms. Sunitha spoke to them about the donor card and 29 students came forward to pledge their organs and signed the MOHAN Foundation donor registry form.
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