In Pics: NDTV-Fortis Launch Campaign To Promote Organ Donation
Updated: November 17, 2016 11:42 IST
The NDTV-Fortis More To Give campaign was launched by campaign ambassador, and actor Irrfan Khan with a panel discussion around the pressing need for organ donation.
The campaign aims to bring to the forefront the wide gap between the number of transplants our country needs and the donors or transplants that actually occur. The intiative intends raise awareness about organ donation and encourage people to lend their support to the cause.
Actor Irrfan Khan at the launch of the NDTV-Fortis More To Give campaign. The campaign aims to highlight the pressing need for organs, and encourage people to step up and donate. Know more about it here.
Zainab who is now over 7-years-old was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2014. She was 6-years-old then. She received a new kidney at Fortis Hospital in Chennai.
Aarti Vij, Faculty Incharge of the Organ Retreival Banking Organisation (ORBO) at AIIMS,
participates in the NDTV-Fortis More To Give campaign launch.
You, too, can be a part of the initiative, volunteer here.
Vikram Chandra, Executive Director and CEO of the NDTV Group, moderates the panel
discussion during the launch of the NDTV-Fortis More to Give campaign.
Madanmohan Juneja decided to donate his 20-year-old son Anmol Juneja's organs after he met with a road accident, and was declared brain-dead. Anmol saved the lives of as many as 34 people. Here's how it happened.
Dr. Prannoy Roy during the launch of the NDTV-Fortis More To Give campaign. The campaign hopes to spread awareness about organ donation. Here's all you need to know about it.
Irrfan Khan listens in to Dr. Prannoy Roy's views on organ donation. Here are a few statistics that emphasise on the need of more donors.
The panel discussion, held in New Delhi, was attended by Irrfan Khan, actor, and the campaign ambassador; Malvinder Mohan Singh, Executive Chairman, Fortis Healthcare; Bhavdeep Singh, CEO, Fortis Healthcare; Dr. Avnish Seth, Director, Fortis Organ Retrieval & Transplant (FORT); Dr. K R Balakrishnan, Director, Cardiac Sciences & Chief Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai; Y Puran Kumar, Joint Commissioner, Gurgaon Police; Dr. Vimal Bhandari , Director, National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO); Dr. Aarti Vij, Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation (ORBO), AIIMS; and Dr. Prannoy Roy, Founder & Executive Co-Chairperson, NDTV.
Few people also came forward to share their organ transplantation stories.
