02 Dec 2016, 06:31 am

On Nov 26, all right-thinking people, who believe in the virtues of Organ Transplantation, were gathered together to host the programme called the Cadaver Daan.
The inaugural address was given by Sutanu Ghosh (President, The Bengal Chamber of commerce and industries).
The eminent speakers of the programme were Dr. Amit Ghose (Chairperson Emeritus-Health Committee, BCC&I and Consultant Urologist, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals Kolkata) who was also the moderator of the programme, Dr. Sunil Shroff (Senior Consultant Urologist,Transplant Surgeon & Managing Trustee MOHAN Foundation), Dr. Arindam Chanda (Chairperson-Health Committee,BCC&I,COO,GD Hospital & Diabities Institute) Dr. V V Lakshminarayan(Chief Nephrologist,Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals Kolkata), Dr. Aditi Kishore Sarkar ,Addl DHS (Admin), Govt. of WB, among others.
On behalf of Bengal Chamber the personalities who offered to donate their organs are- R.N. Lahiri (Chairperson Emeritus,IT Committee,BCCI), Radhakrishnan (Past president,BCC&I),Dipak Dutta (Member,BCC&I), Arun Kr. Mukherjee (Chairperson of energy & environment committee,BCC&I), Shubhodip Ghosh (Director General,BCC&I) and Dr. Amit Ghose(Chairperson Emeritus -Health Committee,BCC&I).
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