The Need
- In 2008 over 4,300 Canadians were waiting for a transplant of some kind. Of those people, 215 died before donor organs could be procured.
- Organs are donated in just 1.5 % of approximately 30,000 deaths recorded in Ontario hospitals each year
The Impact You Have
- Donate kidneys to free two people from dialysis treatment needed to sustain life.
- Save the lives of patients awaiting heart, liver, lung or pancreas transplants.
- Give sight to two people trough the donation of corneas.
- Donate bone to help repair injured joints or to help save an arm or leg threatened by cancer.
- Help burn victims heal more quickly through the donation of skin.
- Provide healthy heart valves for someone whose life is threatened by malfunctioning or diseased heart valves
*Just one donor can save up to eight lives and enhance up to 75 others!
