On 10th September, 2013 an awareness session on organ donation was organized for the nurses from the Neurosurgery ward, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Pondicherry.
Mr. Ananth R, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, Chennai conducted the session. The session aimed at sensitizing the nurses about the need for deceased organ donation. In his presentation Mr. Ananth covered the following topics: about organ donation; who can be a donor; about brain death; difference between brain death and coma; what are the organs and tissues that can be donated after brain death; importance of pledging ones organs by signing the donor card and the protocol followed at PIMS for retrieval and transplantation of deceased organs.
Few of the queries that were raised at the session were: what is the age criteria for donating organs, the order in which organs are retrieved and how long can organs be preserved after they are retrieved.
There were totally 10 nurses who participated in the session and all of them pledged their organs by signing the donor card.
