The Chennai Mission Association of Holy Cross Church, Mugappair, Chennai have organised a continuous awareness program on organ donation for their member churches and for the Reverent Fathers of Syro Catholic Church. They invited MOHAN Foundation to deliver talk on 11th December 2013.
The programme started with a welcome speech given by Mr. Francis, member of the parish, Mugappair, Chennai. Following that Ms. S. Kavitha, Marketing Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation delivered a talk on Organ Donation. Her talk concentrated to following topics: Concepts of Organ Donation, Types of Donors, Organs that can be donated after natural and brain death, Importance of Donor Card, Statistics of organ donation for Tamilnadu and Kerala, Toll free helpline number.
She ended her talk by sharing few real stories, by which the whole group was moved. After the session few participants raised queries like:
Can a 5 year old child’s organ be transplanted to a 50 yrs old adult?
What response do you get from medical profession?
Queries were clarified. Mr. Sebastin, member of Syro Malabar Catholic Church, Muthapudupet, Avadi, Chennai announced that the next awareness session will be held at Sacred Heart Syro Church on 15th December 2013. 13 Fathers attended the session and all of them promised to organize an awareness programme at their church.