California Transplant Donor Network Partners With Saturn and the Oakland As to Promote Organ, Tissue, Bone-Marrow and Blood Donation.News Editors/Health & Medical Writers As FanFest/Saturn Donor Day Will Be Held Saturday, February 8 in Oakland OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2003 The California Transplant Donor Network Located in Oakland, California, the California Transplant Donor Network (CTDN) is a non-profit, federally designated organ procurement organization that under the adminitration of UNOS facilitates organ recovery and transplantation in the Northern California and Northern Nevada region. will have a special opportunity to promote organ and tissue donation at the Oakland As' FanFest, Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Oakland Coliseum, as part of Saturn Donor Day. The goal of the annual Saturn Donor Day is to raise national awareness of the critical need for organ, tissue, bone-marrow and blood donors to save lives. By sponsoring the Oakland As' FanFest, Saturn assures that a great number of people in our community hear that message. On Saturday, As' fans can get more information about organ and/or tissue donation, speak to recipients and donor-family members, and receive special organ/tissue donor cards donor card n. A card, usually carried on one's person, authorizing the use of one's bodily organs for transplantation in the event of one's death. featuring As' pitcher and Cy Young Award Winner Barry Zito Barry William Zito (born May 13 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He previously played seven seasons with the Oakland Athletics. . Also, in honor of Melinda Ohler, the firefighter who died last month after falling off of a fire truck, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Fire Chief Trevino and some of Ohler's colleagues from Engine Company 42 will attend the As' FanFest on Saturday between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. As she had wished, Ohler's family donated her organs and five people benefited from this generous gift of life. At the FanFest, As' fans will have the opportunity to donate blood or join the National Bone-Marrow Donor Registry through the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. . Special events featuring players and coaches will be held. Tickets for the event are available in advance at As' Ticket Services and online at www.tickets.com or at the Arena Box Office and at Gate D on the day of the event. The California Transplant Donor Network believes increased health and wellness in our communities will lessen the need for organ transplantation The transfer of organs such as the kidneys, heart, or liver from one body to another. The transplantation of human organs has become a common medical procedure. Typical organs transplanted are the kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, cornea, skin, bones, and lungs. . The Transplant Network participates in a number of community events, as the visibility of the great need for organ donation Organ donation is the removal of the tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting or grafting them into other persons. in Northern and Central California Central California can refer to one of several divisions or regions of the U.S state of California:
Some Facts About Organ and Tissue Donation -- More than 80,000 people in the United States are waiting for a vital organ transplant. As of January 31, 2003, 7,864 of these are in the Transplant Network's Northern and Central California service area. -- Each day, more than 17 people -- one every two hours -- die in the United States because of a shortage of organ donors. An average of 13 people is added to the national waiting list for organs every day. -- One person can save as many as seven lives through organ donation, and touch more than 50 others with tissue donation. The most-important way to assure this occurs is by telling your family of your wishes about donating your organs when you no longer need them. California Transplant Donor Network The California Transplant Donor Network improves and extends lives by facilitating organ and tissue donation for transplantation. The Transplant Network helps 160 hospitals in 40 Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada counties offer the option of organ and tissue donation to families whose loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl have died, coordinates deceased organ and tissue recovery and placement, and provides public education with the hope that every resident will become a donor. It is federally designated as this area's organ-procurement organization. For more information, visit www.ctdn.org or call 1-888-570-9400. Media Notice: Media planning to cover Oakland A's FanFest 2003 are required to make their credential request in advance of the event by calling/e-mailing Debbie Gallas in the A's Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Department(510/563-2207; dgallas@oaklandathletics.com). |
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