Healthy vision - WalesOnline

Healthy vision - WalesOnline

Healthy vision
Sep 18 2008 by Our Correspondent, Gwent Gazette

A LOCAL optician has pledged its support to a campaign urging people to join the Organ Donor Register and talk about organ donation with their loved ones.

Specsavers in Ebbw Vale is backing the Donate Wales, Tell a Loved One campaign. It is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and has already received the support of Welsh celebrities such as Colin Jackson, Connie Fisher, Max Boyce and Stuart Cable.

More than 490 people in Wales are currently waiting for transplants, yet only one in four of us has joined the Organ Donor Register. The campaign is being led by the Kidney Wales Foundation and sees some of the country’s biggest charities come together for the first time in the UK to tackle the shortage of donors. Organisations involved include the British Heart Foundation Cymru, British Medical Association, Diabetes UK, British Liver Trust, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Live Life then Give Life, Royal National Institute for the Blind and Welsh Kidney Patients Association.