BE AN ORGAN/TISSUE DONOR AND HELP SAVE LIVES!

• In Colorado and Wyoming, close to 1,800 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. Nationally, more than 99,000 people are waiting.

• No one should rule themselves out as potential organ and tissue donors. Everyone should designate their decision regardless of age or medical concerns.

• Organs that can be donated are: heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, pancreas and small intestine.

• Tissues that can be donated are: bone, tendons, ligaments, corneas, heart valves and skin.

• A single organ and tissue donor can save up to 100 lives.

• More than half of those who are waiting in our state are waiting for a kidney.

• To learn more about organ and tissue donation visit www.donoralliance.org.
  
  
• You can register to be an organ and tissue donor by doing one of the following:
  
  
• Sign-up at the 3rd Annual Cheyenne Day of Giving on May 8th at the Cheyenne-Kiwanis Community House in Lions Park. Donor Alliance will be there to help people register their decisions to be organ and tissue donors during the event.
  
  
• Sign-up online through the Wyoming Donor Registry at WyomingDonorRegistry.org or call (888) 256-4386.
  

• Say “yes” when obtaining or renewing your driver’s license at the Department of Transportation.
  
  
• Seniors and minorities account for more than 60% of those on the National Transplant Waiting List.
  
  
• All major religions support organ, eye and tissue donation as an unselfish act of charity.

 

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