Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 20: State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO) in collaboration with Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu organized a workshop on “Organ and Tissue Donation” in the auditorium of the College, here today.
The workshop that witnessed the participation of over 150 participants including medical professionals, HoDs, faculty and nursing students, was inaugurated by Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma (Principal and Dean, GMC Jammu) along with Ashwani Khajuria (Administrator, AHJ), Dr Elias Sharma (HoD Urology and Renal Transplant Unit SSH Jammu & Nodal Officer SOTTO J&K), Dr Haroon Salaria (HoD Neurosurgery), Dr Anju Jamwal (HoD Anesthesiology), Dr Rakesh Bahl (Professor P&SM), Dr Anita Vig (Professor Anesthesiology), Dr Narender Bhutyal (Medical Superintendent GMCH) and Dr Rehana Bashir (Deputy Medical Superintendent GMCH).
The inaugural ceremony was followed by the release of SOTTO’s first annual Newsletter “Naman” by dignitaries present there. Eminent speakers were invited to talk on various aspects of Organ Donation. The program was designed to focus on the altruistic cause of organ donation by reaching out to the medical fraternity from various streams which will help improve donation/retrieval/transplantation in India saving precious lives.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Elias Sharma said that to give an impetus to mass level to Cadaveric Organ Donation in India, such programmes should be organized regularly so that continuous awareness remains among the people while Dr Haroon Salaria talked about “Identification of Donors and Brain Stem Death Declaration”.
Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma said that, “nothing can be more self-evident than to give those who really need help, a ray of hope and more precisely a second chance to live just by pledging and donating the organs after we are gone.
Dr Anita Vig addressed the gathering on “how to maintain a donor” while Dr Ashok Sharma gave description about Eye Donation and Transplantation, need of eye bank and types of Keratoplasty etc.
Dr Sandhya Arora talked upon “Organ donation in Medico legal cases” whereas Gagandeep Kour and Sonia Bassan (transplant coordinators, GMCH) spoke upon “Challenges of Organ Donation” and ” Role of Transplant Coordinator”, respectively.
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