Conducted Organ Donation Awareness Session at NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy, Nerul, Navi Mumbai

On 20 th October 2023, MOHAN Foundation was invited to deliver an awareness talk

for D Pharm students of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy. Mrs. Pratiksha

Wasankar from the institution organized the event and Ms Prarthana Dwivedi was

the speaker, who spoke on the following topics:

 Organ donation and transplantation

 Brief explanation on brain death

 Identification and certification of brain death

 Eye Donation and skin donation

 Organ allocation and sharing

 Organ retrieval

 Pledging organs

 Role of a police in donation

 Body Donation

The session ended with sharing of a motivational story, answering the queries raised

by the students process to pledge organs and using the tollfree helpline number.

Questions asked by the audience were as follows:

 How much time required for Skin donation process?

 Documents required for Eye donation?

 Can old age person donate body after death and how?

Ms. Prarthana answered all the queries promptly. Close to 14 members pledged their

organs. 88 students, including faculty and students of D Pharm departments

attended the session. We thank Dr Sonali Sonulkar and Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar

coordinator of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy for inviting us and supporting the

cause of Organ Donation.

On 20th October 2023, MOHAN Foundation was invited to deliver an awareness talk for D Pharm students of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy. Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar from the institution organized the event and Ms Prarthana Dwivedi was the speaker, who spoke on the following topics:

 Organ donation and transplantation

 Brief explanation on brain death

 Identification and certification of brain death

 Eye Donation and skin donation

 Organ allocation and sharing

 Organ retrieval

 Pledging organs

 Role of a police in donation

 Body Donation

The session ended with sharing of a motivational story, answering the queries raised by the students process to pledge organs and using the toll free helpline number.

Questions asked by the audience were as follows:

 How much time required for Skin donation process?

 Documents required for Eye donation?

 Can old age person donate body after death and how?

Ms. Prarthana answered all the queries promptly. Close to 14 members pledged their organs. 88 students, including faculty and students of D Pharm departments attended the session. We thank Dr Sonali Sonulkar and Mrs. Pratiksha Wasankar coordinator of NCRD Sterling Institute of Pharmacy for inviting us and supporting the cause of Organ Donation.