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.donatelifeamerica.org.
  
  
• You can register to be an organ and tissue donor by doing one of the following:
  
  
• Sign up at the 5th Annual Cheyenne Day of Giving on May 7th at the Kiwanis Community House in Lions Park. Donate Life Wyoming will be there to help people register their decisions to be organ and tissue donors.
  
  
• Sign-up online through Donate Life Wyoming at donatelifewyoming.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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