Goldie Ghamari - Did you know it takes less than 2 minutes to become a registered organ donor in Ontario？

00:00:00.040 Hi everyone it's Goldie Gamari your MPP for Carleton and I'm here today with

00:00:05.760 Ronnie she is the CEO of Trillium Gift of Life Network and we're talking about

00:00:11.880 being an organ donor and how easy it is to sign up. In Carleton alone there are

00:00:17.380 23 people on the wait list in waiting to get an organ donation and you were

00:00:23.700 telling me that across Ontario 1600 people and and on average on average

00:00:31.020 every three days one dies just waiting there aren't enough organs it's so

00:00:35.380 important that people register their consent and talk to their families and

00:00:39.480 and it's really really easy to do so I'm actually here and I'm going to show you

00:00:44.460 how how easy it is to actually sign up to become an organ donor I have my health

00:00:51.120 card with me and I'm on the website. The website is BeADonor.ca. So I'm just going to go through

00:00:58.160 the process right now. Once I put in my health card information, it asks me if I want to do

00:01:09.980 transplant or transplant an organ and tissue research. I also have the option of donating

00:01:15.640 any needed organs and tissue or I can exclude anything that I don't want to

00:01:20.600 donate. Now I have selected both transplant organ and tissue research and

00:01:25.400 also any needed organs and tissue. And I review this, I click on the consent form, now I am

00:01:38.200 officially a registered organ and tissue donor. Wonderful. That's how easy it was. Thank you so

00:01:44.680 much so my message to everyone is it's such an important cause and it's you

00:01:50.920 know it literally took me less than two minutes to do online go to be a donor

00:01:55.240 and sign up today to become an organ and tissue donor.

00:01:59.240 Wonderful. Thank you.

00:02:01.240 Isn't that wonderful?

Goldie Ghamari - February 23, 2019