On 9^th October, 2013 an awareness session on organ donation and transplantation was conducted for the nurses in the morning shift and other staff members from the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS), Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry. Mr. Ananth R, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai – deputed at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Puducherry conducted the session.

Dr. Biju Pottakkat, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Dr. Durgaprasad Rath, Assistant Professor, CTVS, Jipmer, Puducherry took the initiative to coordinate the session.

Mr. Ananth in his session covered the following topics: types of donations – live and deceased; difference between cardiac death, brain death and coma; organs that can be donated, the number of hours the various organs can be preserved before transplantation; the importance of the donor card; role played by the nurse and transplant coordinator; organ donation norms and forms; and also about MOHAN Foundation activities.

There were totally 3 nurses and 2 staff members who participated in the session. All of them picked up a donor card.