55: “Lasting Impact: The Importance of Organ and Tissue Donation.”

Health4Naija

August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month. The goal of this annual observance is to increase organ donor registrations among

communities of color, which make up nearly 60% of the more than 100,000 people on the national waitlist for life-saving organ transplant

AND promote healthy living and disease prevention to decrease the need for transplantation.

Our guest today is Leslie R. Jean-Mary, Multicultural Affairs Specialist at Gift of Life Donor Program.

Gift of Life Donor Program is part of the nationwide organ and tissue sharing network run by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), an American non-profit organization serving as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government. Since 1974, Gift of Life has coordinated more than 55,000 life-saving organs for transplants, and more than 2 million tissue transplants have resulted from the generosity of donors and their families.

Gift of Life Donor Program serves more than 11.3 million people across the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.

For more information or to register, visit donors1.org.

Host is Dr. Ngozi Onuoha, a medical doctor and founder of Health4Naija, for health awareness and education.

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Dr. Ngozi Onuoha is passionate about health and well-being, and enjoys adding value to people by sharing her knowledge to better our understanding of health and how to better ourselves overall.

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