KIMS Hospital launches organ donation awareness campaign

: The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) hospital here launched an awareness campaign on organ donation in association with the state government's Kerala Network for Organ Sharing (KNOS) today.
The campaign, titled 'Amrutham', is envisaged to create awareness for the need to donate organs to save lives.
The drive, inaugurated by film actor Anoop Menon here, has been taken up in view of hundreds of people in the state waiting for organs for transplantation, a hospital release said here today.
As part of the initiative, the awareness campaigns will be organised in schools and colleges, it said.
The function was attended by KIMS Vice Chairman Dr G.

Vijayaraghavan, KNOS nodal officer Dr Noble Gracious, Dr Praveen Muralidharan, Dr Shiraz and Dr Shabeer Ali.
The programme was initiated by the Liver Transplant Department of KIMS Hospital.