Dad's delight as Facebook joins the organ campaign

Hertfordshire Mercury


HE father of a transplant recipient has described a social networking website’s efforts to encourage people to sign up to the organ donor register as a “massively positive step”.

Facebook users can now register to become organ donors through a new health and wellbeing button on the site’s timeline.
Philip Barton, of Grafton Place, Standon, whose six-year-old son Kian received a partial liver and kidney transplant in 2009 – as featured in last week’s Mercury – has welcomed the move aimed particularly at younger people.

The father-of-one said: “People don't realise that there are children waiting for transplants.

“I think this new venture is brilliant because Facebook has such a large demographic and it is increasing in popularity. We need to get as many people as possible on to the register.”

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