MOHAN Foundation was invited to do an Organ Donation awareness programme for the employees of Croma, the electronics megastore on March25, 2013. It was held for the group of employees at two different branches of the store, at  Anna Nagar and  at Mount Road, Chennai. Around 100 employees attended the session in 2 batches. Mr. Johnson, Transplant Coordinator of MOHAN Foundation, Chennai addressed the gathering and explained to them various concepts related to deceased organ donation. 

 

The interactive session helped the employees to understand and clarify their doubts on the concept of deceased organ donation and to develop right knowledge and attitude towards this noble cause.

 

 

 The main topics discussed during the programme were:

 

• Blood Donation and its benefits.
• Importance of donors and recipients 
• Types of Organ Donation - Live and Deceased Donation
• Procedure for eye donation
• Brain Death- how it is different from natural death and coma
• Organs that can be donated after brain death and natural death
• Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994.
• Statistics of donors in Tamil Nadu. 
• Role of Transplant Coordinators in Hospitals
• Activities of MOHAN Foundation across the country to strengthen the Deceased Organ Donation programme

 

 

More than 110 employees attended the session and all the employees picked donor cards. The efforts of Ms. Divya, Human Resource Manager, Croma should be appreciated in organising a well coordinated programme on this special day!