By Ms Pallavi Kumar | Executive Director- MOHAN Foundation- Delhi NCR
GLOBAL GIVING REPORT
August, September & October 2022
Celebrating organ donation nationwide
Celebration of ‘Organ Donation Week’
All the offices of the Foundation observed Organ Donation Week from August 8 to 13, 2022. Multiple awareness talks, online sessions, stalls, information desks, Rangoli Competition, Poster making competition, Nukkad Natak, Radio/Television interviews, Bike/Bicycle/Skating rallies and flash mob were organized to reach out to maximum people so that everyone is sensitized to the need of the hour and more and more people should come forward and pledge their organs.
Links to access some of the biggest activity reports:
Cycle rally, Chennai
Bike, Bicycle & Skating rally, Belagavi, Karnataka
Flash mob, Jaipur
https://www.mohanfoundation.org/activities/Flashmob-at-WTP-Jaipur-8393.htm
Rangoli Competition, Nagpur
Organ Donation Awareness Sessions/Events
Multi-city sensitization sessions/events on organ donation were organized face to face and on online platforms like Facebook, You Tube & zoom for participants belonging to the cities of Delhi, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Belagavi, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Chennai, Goa, Pune, Darlaghat & Poanta Sahib (Himachal Pradesh), Haridwar, Imphal, Jammu & Kashmir, Bikaner and Visakhapatnam. Target audience were school children and staff, students (medical, First-aid, college, NSS, nursing, paramedical, physiotherapy, MSW, law and IIM), First Aid staff, corporate employees, hospital staff, members (NGOs, Lion club, political party, Rotary, Rotaract & NATCO) account officers, police officers & staff, chief medical officers, paying guests, NCC cadets, dialysis patients & caregivers, nursing teachers, healthcare workers, paramedical staff, health care professionals, hospital administrative staff, transplant surgeons, cricket players, vocational centre trainees and general public.
In this quarter over33576 people were reached through 195sessions.
Mass Awareness through Community Radio Program
MOHAN Foundation Jaipur Citizen Forum (MFJCF) organized radio programs on organ donation for the rural population of Rajasthan which was broadcasted on 101.2 AIR on August 13 and October 22, 2022. The programmes featured expert interaction with Dr. Rakesh Jain, HOD, Plastic Surgery & Burns, SMS Hospital, Jaipur and Mr. Suresh Kishnani, Retired Principal Commission Head Custom GST, Visakhapatnam. MOHAN Foundation also tied up with Pasumai CR 90.4 FM Dindigul, VIT CR 90.8 MHz, Vellore, Anna CR 90.4 MHz, Chennai, Vayalaga Vanoli 90.4 MHz Madurai and Kalanjiam Samuga Vanoli 90.8 MHz Nagapattinam to broadcast the message of organ donation through a play in Tamil.
The broadcast schedules and timings were different for each community radio stations and broadly ran for four months from August to November 2022.
MOHAN Foundation Organ Donation Helpline
MOHAN Foundation’s 24X7 helpline gives information on organ donation & transplantation, pan India in 8 languages. MF Helpline number’s visibility is increasing & families on their own look up through internet browsers or phone to find out information about organ donation. In this quarter, 2838 calls were facilitated by MOHAN Foundation’s executivesthat resulted in12 eye donations saving 24 lives.
Street theatre organized as part of Organ Donation Drive to increase the visibility of helpline number
Nexus Vijaya in association with MOHAN Foundation organised an Organ Donation drive in NEXUS Vadapalani Mall, Chennai. The drive was for 4 days from Sept 15 -18, 2022 and was held in the main atrium of the mall. On September 17 (3rd day of the drive), MF representatives organized a street theatre that was performed by the students of Madras School of Social Work.
Link to access the report:
Organ Donation Facilitated by MOHAN Foundation’s Transplant Coordinators
With continued efforts from MOHAN Foundation’s Transplant Coordinators, the number of donations (eyes, organs & body) have been maximized thus saved many lives in their respective states in this quarter. A Total of 270 lives across India were saved through 212 corneal donations, 32 kidney donations, 14 liver donations, 2 Pancreas donations,3 lung donations, 6 heart donations& 1 skin donation.
Case study
Mr. Anand (Name changed)
On September 30, 2022, Ms. Sheetal Mundada, Transplant Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation, was called to initiate counselling for organ donation of a brain-dead patient at KLE’s Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Belagavi, Karnataka.
Mr. Anand, a 30-year-old, male patient, resident of Athani Village, fell at home and collapsed. He was immediately rushed to the private clinic of their family doctor, who suggested a few investigations. The test results were not good, so Prashant's family was told to take him to KLE Hospital for further management.
The family made a call to KLE Hospital, briefing the condition of the patient. Mr. Pramod Sulikeri, PRO, KLE Hospital, visited Athani village and shifted the patient to the hospital.
In the hospital, patient was declared brain-dead by the treating team of doctors and Sheetal was called to initiate counselling for organ donation with the family. She introduced herself and the Foundation and began by asking the father what he knew about the condition of his son. He said that he fully understood his son’s condition and under the circumstances the only good outcome would be to donate his organs and save the lives of many waiting for a life-saving transplant.
He and his younger son did have a few queries regarding the allocation of organs. Sheetal explained in detail that the organs were a national resource and SOTTO (State Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization), the state body, was the nodal body that decides who gets the organ. She efficiently handled queries like the time taken for the whole process and the handing over of the body. Then, Mr. Manoj Nayak, the grief counsellor of Jeevasarthakathe, SOTTO Karnataka, took the required consent from the family.
After completion of all the paperwork as mandated by The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994, the patient was shifted to the Operation Theatre for retrieval of the organs on October 01, 2022. The organs harvested were heart, lungs, liver, skin and corneas.
While the body was being handed over to the family members from the mortuary, KLE Hospital, in association with MOHAN Foundation, paid a unique tribute to the departed soul with a "Walk of Honour".
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