National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week–Talk to Your Loved Ones!
Montréal, April 23, 2023 – National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week is April 23 to 29, and Héma-Québec is taking the opportunity to remind everyone of the importance of indicating your consent to be a donor by signing your health insurance card or joining one of the official registries. Once you’ve done this, don’t forget to let your loved ones know your wishes!
Without the generosity of those who accept to make such a donation after death, and the agreement of their loved ones to honour that choice, it would be impossible to meet the needs of sick patients or those injured in an accident who require a graft. The death of a loved one is always a difficult time, but organ and tissue donation can help give meaning to this ordeal. And knowing the person’s wishes makes it easier to speak with the medical team and with Héma-Québec.
Héma-Québec is responsible for retrieving, preparing and distributing human tissues intended for transplants (including cutaneous tissues, heart valves, and musculoskeletal tissues, such as tendons and bones) and making them available to Québec hospitals. Héma-Québec also retrieves and prepares eye tissues for use in cornea transplants.
To learn more about donating human tissues, visit the Human Tissue section of Héma-Québec’s website.
About Héma-QuébecHéma-Québec’s mission is to efficiently meet the Québec population’s needs for blood and other high-quality biological products of human origin. Héma-Québec has over 1,500 employees, more than 200,000 donors of blood, stem cells, mother’s milk and human tissues, as well as thousands of blood drive volunteers. Every year, Héma-Québec delivers nearly 800,000 biological products of human origin to Québec’s hospitals in order to meet patients’ needs. Give blood. Give life. |
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Information: Héma-Québec • Media Line | 514-832-0871 • www.hema-quebec.qc.ca