Organ Donation

National Kidney Foundation Challenges Americans During Annual Organ Donor Campaign

Published in Transplant Weekly, March 26th, 2000

In an effort to ease the desperate organ shortage in the United States, the National Kidney Foundation has issued a challenge to all Americans to sign organ donor cards during National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, April 16-23, 2000.

More than 65,000 Americans - men, women, and children - are currently awaiting transplants of life-saving organs, and the list grows longer every hour of every day. Each month approximately 2,000 new patients are added to the waiting list.

"Our goal [during] this week is to educate everyone about the life-saving power of organ donation and dispel the myths and misconceptions that prevent people from signing...

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Source: Transplant Weekly (2000-03-26)

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