Organ donor awareness

Kerry mayors to join forces for organ donor awareness

KERRY’S four mayors have joined forces to ensure people in the county are aware of the importance of carrying organ donor cards.
They are asking the people of Kerry to support organ donor week which aims to highlight the increasing demand for donation for transplantation. The event will run on April 2-9.
“It is essential to constantly remind people of the importance of carrying organ donor cards,” said Killarney Mayor Tom Doherty.
“Hopefully people have taken note of the Cystic Fibrosis Association’s organ donation awareness posters around the country,” he said.
Mayor Doherty was joined in his campaign by Tralee Mayor Terry O’Brien, Listowel Mayor Tom Walsh and the Mayor of Kerry Toireasa Ferris.
The four local council heads will also get involved in a mayors’ awareness day which will take place on Sunday.
People are asked to drop in to the organ donor awareness centres to sign up and collect their donor cards.
In Killarney this will take place in the town hall chambers while in Tralee and Listowel the venues will be the local KDYS halls.
Meanwhile, the people of Kerry have been urged to support the annual cash drive in aid of Organ Donor Awareness Week.
This life-saving campaign is organised by the Irish Kidney Association - the national organisation which promotes and distributes the organ donor card in Ireland.
Members of the public are also encouraged to buy a ‘forget me not’ flower or donor keyring for ¤2, or a forget me not brooch for ¤3, which will be on sale throughout the country during the week.
Proceeds raised will go towards the Irish Kidney Association’s support programme for patients on dialysis and those patients fortunate enough to have received kidney transplants.

The Kingdom newspaper