One organ and tissue donor can save up to 8 lives and enhance as many as 75 more. By registering your consent to donate today, you can positively impact the lives of many Ontarians in need of organ and tissue transplants.
In June 2011, Trillium Gift of Life Network in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and ServiceOntario launched online donor registration via http://www.beadonor.ca/.
A signed donor card does not mean you are registerd, visit http://www.beadornor.ca/ to check your status or to register your consent. Registration means your donation decision can be accessed around the clock.When you register your consent to donate organs and tissue, your donation decision is recorded in a secure Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care database. In the event of your death or imminent death, when all life-saving efforts have failed, your donation decision will be disclosed for the purpose of sharing this information with your family so that they can honour your wishes.
Registration saves lives. When Trillium Gift of Life Network can give evidence to families of their loves one's registered consent, families almost always honour that decision to donate. In the absence of registered consent, only 50% of families consent to organ donation. Organ and tissue donor registration is the only secure and guaranteed way to make your decision to save lives known. Please visit http://www.beadonor.ca/ today.
For more information please visit the Trillium Gift of Life Network website at: www.giftoflife.on.ca
Why Donate?
Every three days in Ontario someone on the organ transplant waiting list dies. There is a chronic shortage of organs and tissue and the need continues to outweigh availability. Just over 1,500 Ontarians are waiting for an organ transplant and many others are waiting for tissue.
Think you are too old or have a health condition that would exlude you? Everyone is a potential organ and tissue donor, regardless of age. To date, the oldest Canadian organ donor was over 90 years of age, while the oldest tissue donor was 102 years old. Please register and leave the determination of suitability of your organs to the professional healthcare team. Organs and tissue that can be donated after death include the heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, small bowel, stomach, corneas, heart valves, bone and skin. Studies show that donating the organs and tissue of a loved one who has died can provide immediate comfort and bring long-lasting consolation to family members in their grieving.
Trillium Gift of Life Network
Trillium Gift of Life Network is the not-for-profit agency of the Government of Ontario responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating and supporting organ and tissue donation across Ontario and improving the system so that more lives can be saved. Organ and tissue donation saves lives. Please talk to your family today.
For more information please visit the Trillium Gift of Life Network website at: www.giftoflife.on.ca
In 2009 Trillium Gift of Life Network launched its first campaign directed at youth to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation. The deliberately provocative new campaign, geared at 15-24 year olds, is anchored by a website, Recycleme.org that provides an engaging way to provide information and encourage young people to consider the critical need for organ and tissue donors. TGLN worked with a youth advisory panel to develop the campaign. TGLN also consulted with various stakeholder groups including the Donor Family Advisory Panel, Provincial Volunteer Committee and healthcare professionals prior to launching the campaign to ensure support for this effort to “raise both eyebrows and awareness.”For more out more about RecycleMe.org please click: www.recycleme.orgFor a more traditional approach to reaching young people in the classroom, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) working in partnership with the London Health Sciences Centre's (LHSC) Mulit-Organ Transplant Program and the Kidney Foundation of Canada (KFC) launched One Life...Many Gifts, a senior secondary school pilot curriculum program aimed at raising the level of understanding about organ and tissue donation in secondary school classrooms across the province. The first pilot year was such a success, that the program is rolling out to an additional 21 district school boards in academic year 2009/10.To find out more about One Life … Many Gifts, please click on the link: http://www.onelifemanygifts.ca/