MOHAN Foundation's representatives were invited to participate and contribute to NOTTOs Chintan Shivir on "One Nation, One Policy" for Organ transplantation in India from 30th August to 31st August 2024. The theme of the meeting was to discuss reforms required for augmentation of organ and tissue donation and transplantation in terms of Technology, Processes and Legislative Reforms in India. 

The 2 day conference was inaugurated by Mr L S Changsan, Addl Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GoI, Prof. (Dr.) Atul Goesl, DGHS, GoI, Shri Apurva Chandra, Secretary (MoH&FW), GoI.

Dr Sunil Shroff, Trustee and Ms. Jaya Jairam, Project Director MOHAN Foundation were invited. Intense discussions on following sessions were  held 

Day 1

Session 1: Ensuring transparency in Organ sharing for Optimal use

Moderated by Dr S K Agarwal

Chairman, Dept of Nephrology, Marengo Asia Hospital, Gurugram & Faridabad & Ex-HOD Nephrology, AIIMS New Delhi 

Session 2: One Nation, One Policy: Issues and Challenges

Moderated by Prof (Dr.) Vivek Kute

Professor, Nephrology and Transplantation IKDRC and Dr H L Trivedi INstitute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad

Session 3: Plugging legal loopholes

Moderated by Dr Anil Agarwal

Director GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi & Incharge Delhi Organ Transplant cell

Session 4: Recent directives in Court Judgements

Moderated by Mr. Prashant Ajmera, Advocate

Founder, Immigration Lawyer & Author Immigration law firm

Session 5: Improving Transplant Outcomes

Moderated by Dr Rajani M

Joint Director (Medical) and Member Secretary of SOTTO Karnataka

Day 2

Session 6: Death related Issues

Moderated by Dr. (Col.) Avnish Seth

Chairman, Manipal Institute of Gastroenterology & Hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences, Manipal Hospital, Delhi, Head Manipal Organ sharing & Transplant (MOST)

Session 7: Correcting the Ecosystem

Moderated by Dr Sunil Shroff 

Senior Consultant Urologist & Transplant Surgeon, Madras Medical Mission Hospital Chennai, Managing Trustee - MOHAN Foundation

Session 8: Health Insurance issues in Organ transplantation

Moderated by Dr Anil Kumar

Director NOTTO

Session 9: Bottlenecks and solution in organ transplantation

Moderated by Dr Rashmi Gupta

Additional Director (M.E.), Directorate of Medical Education, Govt of Rajasthan

Session 10: Future of organ Transplantation

Moderated by Dr Nirupama Trehanpati (Professor and faculty incharge - Dept of Molecular and Cellular medicine, ILBS) and 

Dr Anupam Kumar (Associate Professor, ILBS, Specialist Hepatic Regenerative medicine)

Session 11: Community Participation and Social Mobilization for augmenting awareness on organ donation and prevention

Moderated by Ms Snayana Singh, 

CEO - Organ India

Ms Jaya Jairam was invited as one of the panelists in Session 8 involving discussions around lack of health insurance for Organ donors and recipients, which could act as a big hindrance to the organ donation programme on the whole. The other panelists included Mr Ramana Rao from  IRDAI, Ms. Sunayana Singh from ORGAN India.