Governor Healey recognizes Pediatric Organ Donation Week

Governor Healey recognizes Pediatric Organ Donation Week

BOSTON (WWLP) - April is Organ Donation Month, and this week is focused on pediatric organ donation, as eight people are added to the waiting list for life-saving transplants each day. A single donor can save up to eight lives and heal 75 others with tissue donation, and Governor Healey and First Lady Joanna Lydgate honored donors by signing a proclamation making the awareness month official. Governor Healey and First Lady Lydgate visit DCR…

In Bolivia, every year more than 200 people join the list of patients with chronic renal failure. Many of them rely on dialysis to survive and others look forward, with hope and anxiety, to receiving an organ transplant. Most of them receive help from their relatives, while others wait for a volunteer donor.

Green Ribbon Campaign encourages organ donation, raises awareness

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Do you know if you’re an organ donor? An Orangeville-based initiative dedicated to organ donation advocacy is raising awareness of donor registration in recognition of Organ Donation Awareness Month and National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week.   The Green Ribbon Campaign was started in 2017 by Orangeville resident Mike Steele, a heart transplant recipient who wanted to pay forward hi…

Yesterday, the Senate held the second edition of the talk "Elections 2025: Elegí Donar", an initiative promoted by Senator Daniel Bensusán along with the Families in Action collective. His goal is to raise awareness of the problem of pediatric donation and to advance public policies that save lives. At the opening of the meeting, Bensusán remarked that "what is at stake is the lives of children and the "north is that there are more and more dono…

The activity was promoted along with the Families in Action collective and was attended by legislators and leaders of different political parties.

In the Senate of the Nation, the second edition of the talk “Elections 2025: Elegí Donar”, an initiative promoted by the national senator Daniel Pablo Bensusán along with the Families in Action collective, aimed at raising awareness of the problem of pediatric donation and advancing public policies that save lives. “What is at stake is the lives of children, and our north is that there are more and more donors,” he said. While stressing the need…