Centurion drive: 677 pledge to donate organs

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More than 677 donors pledged to donate body organs at a campaign launched by the Centurion University of Technology and Management

Centurion University Vice-Chancellor Prof Haribandhu Panda, Deputy Vice Chancellor Dr SupriyaPattanayak and Dr Dillip Kumar Parida, medical superintendent, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar were present on the occasion.

The awareness drive by the Centurion is to develop infrastructure for organ transplantation and cadaver preservation through public- private partnership. The movement was started in 2013 under the aegis of loksevak Mandal Cuttack branch. The campaign with the acronym BODI was laid by social activist Dr Pravas Acharya. The Centurion University has joined hands with BODI.

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