On 24th September, 2013 an awareness session on organ donation was organized for the members of the faculty and the technicians of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Puducherry.

Mr. Ananth R, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai addressed the gathering and spoke about deceased organ donation. The interactive session helped the participants to clarify their doubts.

The main topics discussed during the presentation were: types of organ donation: live and deceased donation; brain death: how it is different from natural death and coma; organs that can be donated after brain death and after natural death; activities of MOHAN Foundation across the country to strengthen the deceased organ donation programme and he particularly emphasized on the role of the forensic department in the whole process of organ donation and retrieval.

All the 8 participants supported the cause by signing the donor card.