Transplant Coordinators one week training program – KEM Hospital, Mumbai

MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation in collaboration with ZTCC, Mumbai (Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre) organized one week Transplant Coordinators Training Program at KEM Hospital, Mumbai. 70 members with different professional background like transplant coordinators, social workers, doctors, nurses and dieticians participated in this program.

The training program was scheduled for 5 days which covered the following topics:

1. MOHAN Foundation – Experiences with counseling
2. Counseling and Case studies (real stories)
3. Body donation
4. Renal Transplantation, Dialysis and Prevention
5. Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994
6. Ethics in organ donation
7. Brain Death Declaration and Maintenance
8. Liver transplantation and prevention
9. Heart and heart valves transplantation
10. Postmortem and medico-legal formalities
11. Skin donation
12. Organ Donation and religion
13. Communication Skills
14. Public education in organ donation
15. Transplant coordination (Donor and Recipient)
16. Role play
17. How to start a deceased organ donor program in a hospital

All the above topics were covered by experts in the field of organ donation which motivated the participants to work dedicatedly for the noble cause. The participants did role play an action based learning where they gained more confidence and developed new skills and techniques in counseling.

Organ Donation and Transplantation – Mumbai/Tamil Nadu:

ZTCC coordinates the transplantation process in Mumbai. They also have funds to help hospitals to do cross match testing and to buy HTK solutions. For organ donation they collect NOC (No Objection Certificate) from police prior to retrieval. In whole body donation the Govt. provides travel allowance to the family for a particular jurisdiction.

First skin bank was established in Mumbai; this year they have received 102 skin donations from cadavers. Like eye donation, the skin retrieval team goes to the residence of the donor and harvests the skin, which hardly take 45 mins without any disfigurement. Through this they have helped many burn victims especially children, adults and women. They have also developed a protocol for skin donation, retrieval and transplantation to be shared with other transplant centers to improvise the number of donation to give new lease of life and hope for burn victims and others.

Tamilnadu being a role model in the field of Organ Donation, we learn from each donation and keep learning from other states and countries.

This training program was a platform where each and every participant

LEARNED… SHARED… CHERISHED… the meaning of

LIFE… PASS IT ON!