Organ donation camp held at Tangla

In order to create awareness among people on cadaver organ donation specially among youths,'Rising Hands',an NGO of Tangla in association with Zublee Foundation,organized a programme on cadaver organ donation at Tangla recently on September 15.Teachers and school children were present mostly at the awareness meet besides other citizens to understand and support the cause of organ donation.Several distinguished people attended the meet including Zublee Baruah,playback singer and head of Zublee Foundation; Amitabh Gohain,Director and CEO of the foundation and Priyanka Baruah. Addressing the gathering mostly to students Zublee said that teens must understand organ donation first and then to create awareness among people.She said that organ donation was vital to meet the dearths of millions due to organ failure.Supporting the organ donation campaign in Assam Priyanka Barua,CEO of the organization requested people to draw the attention of the government to take necessary steps to make Cadaver Organ Donation possible in Assam.The meet was inaugurated by social worker Boli Ram Deka which was also addressed by Dr.Bijoy Chakravorty, Superitendent, Tangla CHC;Dr.Nirmal Beria, Joint Director of Health Mangaldai Civil Hospital.A voluntary blood donation camp was also organized by Rising Hands NGO in association with Mangaldai Civil Hospital.According to Bikram Das of Rising Hands NGO, 35 people pledged their organs and nearly 60 persons voluntarily participated in the blood donation camp.