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Apr

Windsor Donor Registrations Climbing, But Remain Below Provincial Average

Organ donation saves lives – and continues to bring hope to families right here in Windsor and Essex County.

Heather St. Pierre is one of our survivors. She discovered in 2012 that she was in kidney failure and would need dialysis treatments to stay alive. She went on a waiting list for a kidney, and spoke to staff at Windsor Regional Hospital about her experience last spring.

Later in 2015, the young mother, now 33, underwent a successful transplant – and is about to return to her teaching career.

Heather is an inspiration to all of us about successfully recovering from a life-threatening medical condition – and a living reminder about how organ and tissue donation saves lives.

Registration rates , through the provincial Be A Donor database, are rising in our community – yet there is still work to do to rise above the provincial average for donation consent.

In Windsor Donor Registrations, we’ve reached the quarter-way mark – with registrations as of the end of December 2015 at 26% of health card carrying individuals in the city, an increase of 5,800 registrants from a year earlier. This represents a 10 percentage point increase from 16 per cent in 2011. However, we’re still below the provincial average of 29%. Numbers elsewhere in our region vary, from Leamington’s 27% rate to 36% in Kingsville and 38% in Essex.

The hope is that more individuals throughout our community consider taking two minutes of their time for Windsor Donor registrations.

“We often choose not to think about what will happen after we die, but it is an important conversation that has the power to save lives,” says Stephanie MacDonald, Organ and Tissue Donation Coordinator at Trillium Gift of Life Network. “When you register your consent for organ and tissue donation, you give hope to those waiting for a life-saving transplant and you relieve your family of the burden of making the decision on your behalf.”

April is Be A Donor month. WRH is helping to promote and support a number of community initiatives planned to help raise awareness in April and beyond, including:

  • Working with local organ donation advocates to offer more community events for schools and workplaces, where survivor and donor family stories are shared and celebrated to bring about a better understanding of what the Gift of Life truly means. This effort kicks off with a school assembly at Cardinal Carter in Leamington on April 14th. (If your group or workplace is interested in hosting an educational event on organ donation, please contact Stephanie MacDonald at [email protected] ).
  • Holding a “Green Carpet Gala” at Lakeshore Cinemas on Wed., April 27th where the film KiliKlimb 2015, which was featured at last year’s Windsor International Film Festival, will be shown. The film features a number of local individuals who went on a mission to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, including Dennis Segatto, an organ transplant survivor. Dennis will be on hand to speak to attendees, as will Heather St. Pierre.
  • WRH will be holding its own events for staff to help encourage registration rates within our own walls, including a celebration of “Hidden Heroes” – hospital professionals who are involved in organ and tissue donation and transplantation whom you might not normally think of being involved in the process, such as porters, lab technicians, security, switchboard operators and spiritual care providers.
  • The sixth annual “A Day For A Life” golf tournament in memory of the late Trevor Funkenhauser takes place on Wed., June 22nd at Kingsville Golf and Country Club. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/trevor.funkenhauser

WRH will continue to use social media as well to continue to promote organ and tissue donation.

“There are two steps to saving a life: First, go to BeADonor.ca. All you need is your health card – it takes two minutes to register. Second, share your decision with your family, so they can honour your wishes, if the circumstances present themselves,” says Dr. Natalie Malus, Medical Director for the ICU at the Ouellette campus and Hospital Donation Physician, Trillium Gift of Life Network.

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