Organ Donation Awareness for Social Work Students

Updated on Friday, January 11, 2019
  • On 27th December 2018, MOHAN Foundation was invited by Dr. Vinod Gajhate Principal of Dr. Ambedkar Social Work College, New Kailash Nagar, Nagpur to conduct an awareness session for the students at the NSS camp at Wade Goan, Nagpur. Around 50 students and 4 lecturers were present in the session.

    Dr. Vinod Gajhate introduced Mr. Bulu Behera and briefly spoke about organ donation and why it is required. Mr. Behera, Transplant Coordinator at MOHAN Foundation, Nagpur gave information about organ donation and transplantation.

    His talk covered the following topics:

    • Necessity and importance of organ donation
    • Type of donors
    • Tissues that could be donated after natural death
    • Brain death and the organs and tissues that could be donated after brain death
    • Myths related to organ donation
    • Importance of Donor cards
    • Importance of Help Line number and MOHAN Foundation website

    It was an interactive session and all the NSS students were highly motivated and promised to come forward and work to make organ donation a success. At the end of the session they were also told about the importance of having a discussion with family about their wish to be organ donors.



    Source-Bulu Behera
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