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The Nebraska Hospital
Association has teamed up with Nebraska Organ Recovery System (NORS)
to help give the gift of life.
[Right now,
110,213 people are waiting for an
organ transplant in the U.S.;
hundreds
of people are waiting for an organ
transplant in Nebraska]
Facts about
organ donation:
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The national
transplant waiting list is currently over 110,000 people.
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Each day 20 people
will pass away because they didn’t get the life-saving organ transplant they
needed to survive.
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Every 11 minutes a
new name is added to the transplant waiting list.
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One organ donor
holds the potential to save 8 lives and enhance up to 50 more through tissue
donation.
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Organ donation does
not delay funeral arrangements or disfigure a body, an open casket funeral
is still a possibility.
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There is never a
cost to be an organ and tissue donor.
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All major U.S.
religions are in support of organ and tissue donation, and consider it a
final act of charity.
Nebraska is behind most all of our neighboring
states when it comes to registered donors. We sit below 50% of all residents
while
most of
our surrounding states are 60% or higher. The goal is to add 80,000 new names
to the registry.
I would like to add my name to the Donor Registry of Nebraska.
Resources
Donor Drive 2011 news release - March 22, 2011
Donor Drive Toolkit for Hospitals
Give the gift of life today!
For more information on organ donor
registration or to register your decision to be an organ and
tissue donor, visit www.nedonation.org.
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