MOHAN Foundation's representatives were invited to participate and contribute to NOTTOs Chintan Shivir on "One Nation, One Policy" for Organ transplantation in India from 30th August to 31st August 2024. The theme of the meeting was to discuss reforms required for augmentation of organ and tissue donation and transplantation in terms of Technology, Processes and Legislative Reforms in India.
The 2 day conference was inaugurated by Mr L S Changsan, Addl Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GoI, Prof. (Dr.) Atul Goesl, DGHS, GoI, Shri Apurva Chandra, Secretary (MoH&FW), GoI.
Dr Sunil Shroff, Trustee and Ms. Jaya Jairam, Project Director MOHAN Foundation were invited. Intense discussions on following sessions were held
Day 1
Session 1: Ensuring transparency in Organ sharing for Optimal use
Moderated by Dr S K Agarwal
Chairman, Dept of Nephrology, Marengo Asia Hospital, Gurugram & Faridabad & Ex-HOD Nephrology, AIIMS New Delhi
Session 2: One Nation, One Policy: Issues and Challenges
Moderated by Prof (Dr.) Vivek Kute
Professor, Nephrology and Transplantation IKDRC and Dr H L Trivedi INstitute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad
Session 3: Plugging legal loopholes
Moderated by Dr Anil Agarwal
Director GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi & Incharge Delhi Organ Transplant cell
Session 4: Recent directives in Court Judgements
Moderated by Mr. Prashant Ajmera, Advocate
Founder, Immigration Lawyer & Author Immigration law firm
Session 5: Improving Transplant Outcomes
Moderated by Dr Rajani M
Joint Director (Medical) and Member Secretary of SOTTO Karnataka
Day 2
Session 6: Death related Issues
Moderated by Dr. (Col.) Avnish Seth
Chairman, Manipal Institute of Gastroenterology & Hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences, Manipal Hospital, Delhi, Head Manipal Organ sharing & Transplant (MOST)
Session 7: Correcting the Ecosystem
Moderated by Dr Sunil Shroff
Senior Consultant Urologist & Transplant Surgeon, Madras Medical Mission Hospital Chennai, Managing Trustee - MOHAN Foundation
Session 8: Health Insurance issues in Organ transplantation
Moderated by Dr Anil Kumar
Director NOTTO
Session 9: Bottlenecks and solution in organ transplantation
Moderated by Dr Rashmi Gupta
Additional Director (M.E.), Directorate of Medical Education, Govt of Rajasthan
Session 10: Future of organ Transplantation
Moderated by Dr Nirupama Trehanpati (Professor and faculty incharge - Dept of Molecular and Cellular medicine, ILBS) and
Dr Anupam Kumar (Associate Professor, ILBS, Specialist Hepatic Regenerative medicine)
Session 11: Community Participation and Social Mobilization for augmenting awareness on organ donation and prevention
Moderated by Ms Snayana Singh,
CEO - Organ India
Ms Jaya Jairam was invited as one of the panelists in Session 8 involving discussions around lack of health insurance for Organ donors and recipients, which could act as a big hindrance to the organ donation programme on the whole. The other panelists included Mr Ramana Rao from IRDAI, Ms. Sunayana Singh from ORGAN India.
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