DL Life Logo June 7, 2013 - - - - 118,466 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST DL Life Logo 96,868 waiting for a kidney DL Life Logo 15,776 wait-listed for a liver DL Life Logo 1,1865 waiting for a pancreasDL Life Logo 2,097 needing a Kidney-PancreasDL Life Logo 3,515 waiting for a life-saving heartDL Life Logo 1,662 waiting for a lungDL Life Logo 46 waiting for a heart-lungDL Life Logo 267 waiting for small bowelDL Life Logo One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives DL Life Logo One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals DL Life Logo You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HEREDL Life Logo

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

INTERNATIONAL ORGAN DONATION AWARENESS - KOREA

Catholics, Buddhists in joint organ donor appeal


By John Choi, Seoul
Published Date: August 25, 2010
Catholics, Buddhists in joint organ donor appeal thumbnail
One-body One-spirit Movement officials registering people for organ donations
Buddhist and Catholic networks in Korea have combined their efforts in a bid to breathe new life into a nationwide organ donor drive.
The One-body One-spirit Movement (OSOB) of the Seoul Archdiocese has joined with the Buddhist-operated Life Share Association and Vitallink, a transplantation medical experts’ group, to launch a new national organization to be known as the Korea Donate Life Network (KODONET).

The launch ceremony for the new network is slated to be held at the Buddhist Dongguk University in Seoul on Sept. 11.
“The network will share information on organ donations, promote campaigns and work to spread a positive organ donation culture,” said John Bosco Yun Kyung-jung, life movement manager of OSOB.
“Currently, the organ donor movement operates separately for each religion. However, through this network, our Catholic organ donation campaign will reach the general public as well as our own faithful,” he added.

Organ donations surged in 2008 after the late Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan donated his eyes.
OBOS registered 30,000 organ donations in 2009 alone, equaling the combined total for the whole twenty year period from 1989 to 2008.

According to the Korean Network for Organ Sharing, a government agency, some 17,000 were awaiting organ transplants in 2009. However, organ donations were obtained from only 261 brain-dead patients.

No comments: