{"id":17764,"date":"2022-06-07T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/?post_type=story&p=17764"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:50:52","slug":"seher-taneja-the-teen-innovator-revolutionising-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/old.globalindian.com\/youth\/story\/cover-story\/seher-taneja-the-teen-innovator-revolutionising-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Seher Taneja: The teen innovator on a mission to revolutionise healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"
(June 7, 2022) <\/b>For a young seventh grader, losing seven close family members to heart ailments within a year was a traumatising experience. Her grief soon turned into a quest to discover the root cause. The findings led to a startling revelation – the lack of heart donors. The obliviousness towards organ donation as a whole prompted Seher Taneja to start Abhigyata in 2018. “When I started researching, I didn’t know much about organ donation, and I realised I wasn’t the only one. On digging deep, I found that for every 50,000 heart transplants needed, we don’t even get 10. It shook me, and I decided to create awareness,” Seher tells Global Indian<\/em><\/a>. What began as a dialogue with family and friends has now turned into a movement of sorts that has reached over 10,000 people.<\/div>\n
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Her first presentation was at her school (Springdales, Delhi) to “plant the seed of organ donation in young minds.” The 17-year-old believes that it’s important to change the mindset from a young age. Calling the problem deep-rooted, the teen changemaker says that talking about death is almost considered blasphemy. “There is so much stigma around death that it isn’t easy to make people open up to the idea of organ donation,” adds the Diana Award winner.
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