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.
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.
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.
