MOHAN Foundation, under the aegis of the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), is holding its eighth one-month transplant coordinators’ training programme in the city. The event will end on Saturday.
Vital role
“Transplant coordinators play a vital role in the organ transplant programme,” said Sunil Shroff, managing trustee of the foundation. “The coordinators deal with counselling the families of brain dead patients — a major step in the process — as it is their consent that allows organs to be harvested.”
“They also coordinate the retrieval and transplantation of organs/tissues and look after the recipients, pre- and post-transplant. They need to be cognizant of the medical, legal and ethical aspects of organ donation and transplantation, as well as with counselling,” he said.
Over 1,400 transplant coordinators have been trained by the foundation in the past seven years.
The course is suited to candidates from both medical and non-medical backgrounds, and is supported by Tata Trusts.
State Health secretary J. Radhakrishnan and P. Balaji, member secretary, Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu, participated.
