Organ Donation Awareness for Rotary Club Members of Nagpur

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  Mr. Bulu Behera and Ms. Veena Wathore at the stall

  On 5^th July 2019, Rotary Club of Nagpur Vision invited MOHAN Foundation to speak about organ donation to the club members at Center Point Hotel in Ramdashpeth, Nagpur. A Rotary member,
  Ms. Choudhary arranged for an organ donation awareness stall of MOHAN Foundation to be put up at the venue. The stall was equipped with standees, banners, information brochures, registration forms and donor cards.

  Mr.Bulu Behera - Transplant Coordinator of MOHAN Foundation, Ms. Kanchan Shewde - Transplant Coordinator of Meditrana Hospital and Ms. Veena Wathore - Transplant Coordinator, ZTCC managed the desk and spoke to the outpatients.

  Information given to visitors included the following:

  • Organ donation as a way of saving lives
  • Organs and tissues that can be donated
  • Difference between circulatory death and brain death
  • How should organ failure patients register in the waitlists
  • How to register as an organ donor on MOHAN Foundation’s website
  • Importance of donor cards
  • Activities of the Nagpur center of MOHAN Foundation
  • Information sources – Helpline number and MOHAN Foundation website

   

  Around 30 rotary members visited the stall and after understanding about organ donation 2 of them signed consent forms and received donor cards.

  Questions asked by visitors were the following:

  • Where is the MOHAN Foundation Office?
  • After natural death whom to contact for eye donation?

  What is bone marrow?

  
  
  Source-Bulu Behera