Keeping It Real with Glenda Sheard

National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week


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In Canada, April 24 - 30, 2022 is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week (NOTDAW)

National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week raises awareness about the critical need for more donors across the country and encourages Canadians to register their decision and talk to their loved ones about organ and tissue donation.

Do you know: 

  • 8: Number of lives that can be saved by one donor.
  • 75: Number of patients who could receive tissue from one donor.
  • 4400: Number of Canadians awaiting a lifesaving organ transplant.
  • 250: Average number of Canadians who die each year waiting.
  • Source: Canadian Blood Services /  https://www.blood.ca/en/about-us/media/organ-and-tissue-donation/backgrounder-national-organ-and-tissue-donation-awareness-week

    One of the greatest gifts we can give to those we love is to let them know our wishes for when we pass. For the listeners that live in Alberta that wish to find out more about organ and tissue donation or to sign up to be a donor: https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Pages/OTDRHome.aspx For listeners in other locations, you can search for information with key words organ donation / tissue donation. 

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