Goldie Ghamari - February 23, 2019


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


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

146.54

Word count

301

Sentence count

15


Summary

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It's so important that people register their consent and talk to their family to become a registered organ and tissue donor. In Carleton alone there are 23 people on the wait list waiting to get an organ donation. Across Ontario, there are 1600 people waiting to become an organ donor and on average, every three days one dies.

Transcript

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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?