Barry mum's fundraising appeal (From Barry And District News)
Barry mum's fundraising appeal and register as a donor plea
By Elinor Cross
A BARRY mum who allowed the donation of organs and tissue from her late son and husband, is gearing up for two events this month – to raise money for Kidney Wales.
After the death of their son Richard in 2004 in a skateboarding accident, Gaynor Taylor and her late husband John were told that he carried an organ donor card – which, they said, took the pressure off making the decision of whether or not to donate his organs.
Since then Gaynor has supported Kidney Wales through fundraising walks, as the charity played a big part in setting up the Organ Donor Card.
Gaynor said: "The important thing is that more people sign the register.
"We had no idea Richard carried a card, but it was a comfort for us because we were following his wishes after he died.
"It is a lot easier when a decision has been made. We were asked out of courtesy, but really he had made the decision. That is why we are raising money – it makes such a big difference."
Friday, 13 March 2009
Thursday, 12 March 2009
HARD-HITTING TELEVISION COMMERCIAL AIMS TO END ORGAN DONOR CRISIS IN WALES
HARD-HITTING TELEVISION COMMERCIAL AIMS TO END ORGAN DONOR CRISIS IN WALES
A hard-hitting television commercial graphically depicting a young child on dialysis waiting for a kidney transplant will be premiered on Welsh TV screens tonight (Thursday, March 12) urging viewers to join the Organ Donor Register.
The Save Sian Campaign has been launched on World Kidney Day as part of the Kidney Wales Foundation’s Donate Wales – Tell a Loved One organ donation drive. It has been funded by a £70,000 grant from the Welsh Assembly Government as well as additional funding from Kidney Wales.
The advert, which can only be screened after 7.30pm because of its content, centres on a six-year-old girl waiting for a kidney transplant and highlights how, because of the desperate shortage of donors in Wales, Sian faces an agonising wait before getting that second chance a transplant would give her.
It urges viewers to Help Save Sian – played by a child actress – by joining the Register and explains how it takes just two minutes to sign-up. In the closing scene Sian pleads with viewers: “Don’t let me die.” The advert will run (on ITV & S4C) until March 28.
Edwina Hart, Minister for Health and Social Services, said: “Currently, nearly 500 people in Wales are listed for a transplant – the majority waiting for a new kidney. Yet because of the organ donor crisis, statistically one person dies every 11 days waiting for a transplant in the principality – the equivalent of more than 150 people in the last five years.
“We are jointly funding this Campaign and are committed to improved services as well as encouraging more of us to join the Organ Donation Register. It is the responsibility of all of us to support the Campaign.”
Roy J. Thomas, Chairman of the Kidney Wales Foundation, said: “We are in the grips of an organ donor crisis in Wales and the urgency upon more people joining the Organ Donor Register has never been greater. In Scotland 32% of people have joined the Register, yet in Wales just 27% have made that life-saving pledge.
“This isn’t because people don’t want to help; we know 90% of people in Wales support organ donation. It is because not enough have acted on their good intentions and signed-up.
“The brutal reality is that people in Wales are dying as a result and unless more people take that all important vital step of signing-up and telling their loved ones about their wishes then more and more people will needlessly die waiting for a transplant.”
The Donate Wales campaign was launched by Kidney Wales last May and since then more than 34,000 people have joined the Organ Donor Register.
To join the Organ Donor Register call 0845 60 60 400, text GIVE to 64118 or visit donatewales.org.
Bydd hysbyseb deledu rymus sy’n rhoi darlun graffig o blentyn ifanc ar ddialysis yn aros am drawsblaniad aren yn cael ei dangos am y tro cyntaf ar sgriniau teledu yng Nghymru heno (dydd Iau, 12 Mawrth) yn annog gwylwyr i ymuno â’r Gofrestr Rhoddwyr Organau.
Lansiwyd Ymgyrch Achub Siân ar Ddiwrnod yr Aren fel rhan o ymgyrch Sefydliad Aren Cymru ar gyfer cyfrannu organau, Rhodd Cymru – Dywed wrth Rywun Agos. Mae wedi cael ei hariannu gan grant £70,000 gan Lywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru yn ogystal â chyllid ychwanegol gan Sefydliad Aren Cymru.
Mae’r hysbyseb, y gellir ond ei gweld ar y teledu ar ôl 7.30pm oherwydd ei chynnwys, yn canolbwyntio ar ferch chwech oed sy’n aros am drawsblaniad aren, ac mae’n amlygu’r modd y mae Siân, oherwydd prinder difrifol o roddwyr yng Nghymru, yn wynebu arhosiad ingol cyn cael yr ail gyfle hwnnw y byddai trawsblaniad yn ei roi iddi.
Mae’n annog gwylwyr i Helpu Achub Siân – sy’n cael ei hactio gan blentyn – trwy ymuno â’r Gofrestr ac yn esbonio’r ffaith mai dim ond dwy funud y mae’n cymryd i ymuno. Yn yr olygfa derfynol, mae Siân yn pledio â’r gwylwyr: “Peidiwch â gadael i mi farw.” Bydd yr hysbyseb yn cael ei dangos (ar ITV ac S4C) tan 28 Mawrth.
Dywedodd Edwina Hart, y Gweinidog dros Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol: “Ar hyn o bryd, mae bron i 500 o bobl yng Nghymru wedi’u rhestru ar gyfer cael trawsblaniad – a’r mwyafrif yn aros am aren newydd. Ond eto, oherwydd yr argyfwng gyda rhoddwyr organau, yn ystadegol mae un person yn marw bob 11 diwrnod yn aros am drawsblaniad – mae hyn gyfwerth â thros 150 o bobl yn y pum mlynedd diwethaf.
“Rydym ni’n ariannu’r Ymgyrch hon ar y cyd ac wedi ymrwymo i wasanaethau gwell yn ogystal ag annog mwy ohonom ni i ymuno â’r Gofrestr Rhoddwyr Organau. Cyfrifoldeb pob un ohonom ni yw cefnogi’r Ymgyrch.”
Dywedodd Roy J. Thomas, Cadeirydd Sefydliad Aren Cymru: “Rydym ni’n wynebu argyfwng o ran rhoi organau yng Nghymru, a dydy’r brys i gael mwy o bobl i ymuno â’r Gofrestr Rhoddwyr Organau erioed wedi bod yn fwy. Yn yr Alban, mae 32% o bobl wedi ymuno â’r Gofrestr, ond eto yng Nghymru, dim ond 27% sydd wedi gwneud yr adduned honno i achub bywyd.
“Dydy hyn ddim oherwydd nad yw pobl eisiau helpu; rydym ni’n gwybod bod 90% o bobl yng Nghymru yn cefnogi rhoi organau. Mae hyn oherwydd nad oes digon o bobl wedi gweithredu eu bwriadau da ac ymuno.
“Y gwirionedd creulon yw bod pobl yng Nghymru yn marw o ganlyniad ac oni bai bod mwy o bobl yn cymryd y cam holl bwysig hwnnw o ymuno a dweud wrth y rhai maen nhw’n eu caru am eu dymuniadau, yna bydd mwy a mwy o bobl yn marw’n ddiangen wrth aros am drawsblaniad.”
For more information or case studies contact Noel Davies, Head of Development, Communications and Events, on 029 2034 3940.
Notes to editors
1. Currently 494 people in Wales are listed for a transplant. This breaksdown to: 443 waiting for a kidney; three for a pancreas; 18 for a kidney/pancreas; five for a heart; 14 for lungs; and 11 for a liver.
2. In the last five years 768 peoples’ lives in Wales have been transformed by the gift of a donor through an organ donor transplant. A further 584 have been given the gift of sight by either a cornea or sclera transplant.
3. Around 10,000 people in Wales are now suffering from some form of chronic kidney disease.
4. With Kidney Wales’ support, the Welsh Assembly Government is steering forward improvements to renal care in Wales including the new renal dialysis unit at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest.
5. A kidney transplant remains the best long-term hope for those suffering with kidney failure. The long-term survival of a kidney transplant continues to improve with 92% of kidney grafts from cadaveric donors and 95% of those from living donors still functioning one-year after transplant.
6. The Kidney Wales Foundation is one of Wales’ oldest and biggest charities. In the 1970s it launched the Kidney Donor Card and a decade established Lifeline Wales – the precursor to today’s Organ Donor Register.
A hard-hitting television commercial graphically depicting a young child on dialysis waiting for a kidney transplant will be premiered on Welsh TV screens tonight (Thursday, March 12) urging viewers to join the Organ Donor Register.
The Save Sian Campaign has been launched on World Kidney Day as part of the Kidney Wales Foundation’s Donate Wales – Tell a Loved One organ donation drive. It has been funded by a £70,000 grant from the Welsh Assembly Government as well as additional funding from Kidney Wales.
The advert, which can only be screened after 7.30pm because of its content, centres on a six-year-old girl waiting for a kidney transplant and highlights how, because of the desperate shortage of donors in Wales, Sian faces an agonising wait before getting that second chance a transplant would give her.
It urges viewers to Help Save Sian – played by a child actress – by joining the Register and explains how it takes just two minutes to sign-up. In the closing scene Sian pleads with viewers: “Don’t let me die.” The advert will run (on ITV & S4C) until March 28.
Edwina Hart, Minister for Health and Social Services, said: “Currently, nearly 500 people in Wales are listed for a transplant – the majority waiting for a new kidney. Yet because of the organ donor crisis, statistically one person dies every 11 days waiting for a transplant in the principality – the equivalent of more than 150 people in the last five years.
“We are jointly funding this Campaign and are committed to improved services as well as encouraging more of us to join the Organ Donation Register. It is the responsibility of all of us to support the Campaign.”
Roy J. Thomas, Chairman of the Kidney Wales Foundation, said: “We are in the grips of an organ donor crisis in Wales and the urgency upon more people joining the Organ Donor Register has never been greater. In Scotland 32% of people have joined the Register, yet in Wales just 27% have made that life-saving pledge.
“This isn’t because people don’t want to help; we know 90% of people in Wales support organ donation. It is because not enough have acted on their good intentions and signed-up.
“The brutal reality is that people in Wales are dying as a result and unless more people take that all important vital step of signing-up and telling their loved ones about their wishes then more and more people will needlessly die waiting for a transplant.”
The Donate Wales campaign was launched by Kidney Wales last May and since then more than 34,000 people have joined the Organ Donor Register.
To join the Organ Donor Register call 0845 60 60 400, text GIVE to 64118 or visit donatewales.org.
Bydd hysbyseb deledu rymus sy’n rhoi darlun graffig o blentyn ifanc ar ddialysis yn aros am drawsblaniad aren yn cael ei dangos am y tro cyntaf ar sgriniau teledu yng Nghymru heno (dydd Iau, 12 Mawrth) yn annog gwylwyr i ymuno â’r Gofrestr Rhoddwyr Organau.
Lansiwyd Ymgyrch Achub Siân ar Ddiwrnod yr Aren fel rhan o ymgyrch Sefydliad Aren Cymru ar gyfer cyfrannu organau, Rhodd Cymru – Dywed wrth Rywun Agos. Mae wedi cael ei hariannu gan grant £70,000 gan Lywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru yn ogystal â chyllid ychwanegol gan Sefydliad Aren Cymru.
Mae’r hysbyseb, y gellir ond ei gweld ar y teledu ar ôl 7.30pm oherwydd ei chynnwys, yn canolbwyntio ar ferch chwech oed sy’n aros am drawsblaniad aren, ac mae’n amlygu’r modd y mae Siân, oherwydd prinder difrifol o roddwyr yng Nghymru, yn wynebu arhosiad ingol cyn cael yr ail gyfle hwnnw y byddai trawsblaniad yn ei roi iddi.
Mae’n annog gwylwyr i Helpu Achub Siân – sy’n cael ei hactio gan blentyn – trwy ymuno â’r Gofrestr ac yn esbonio’r ffaith mai dim ond dwy funud y mae’n cymryd i ymuno. Yn yr olygfa derfynol, mae Siân yn pledio â’r gwylwyr: “Peidiwch â gadael i mi farw.” Bydd yr hysbyseb yn cael ei dangos (ar ITV ac S4C) tan 28 Mawrth.
Dywedodd Edwina Hart, y Gweinidog dros Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol: “Ar hyn o bryd, mae bron i 500 o bobl yng Nghymru wedi’u rhestru ar gyfer cael trawsblaniad – a’r mwyafrif yn aros am aren newydd. Ond eto, oherwydd yr argyfwng gyda rhoddwyr organau, yn ystadegol mae un person yn marw bob 11 diwrnod yn aros am drawsblaniad – mae hyn gyfwerth â thros 150 o bobl yn y pum mlynedd diwethaf.
“Rydym ni’n ariannu’r Ymgyrch hon ar y cyd ac wedi ymrwymo i wasanaethau gwell yn ogystal ag annog mwy ohonom ni i ymuno â’r Gofrestr Rhoddwyr Organau. Cyfrifoldeb pob un ohonom ni yw cefnogi’r Ymgyrch.”
Dywedodd Roy J. Thomas, Cadeirydd Sefydliad Aren Cymru: “Rydym ni’n wynebu argyfwng o ran rhoi organau yng Nghymru, a dydy’r brys i gael mwy o bobl i ymuno â’r Gofrestr Rhoddwyr Organau erioed wedi bod yn fwy. Yn yr Alban, mae 32% o bobl wedi ymuno â’r Gofrestr, ond eto yng Nghymru, dim ond 27% sydd wedi gwneud yr adduned honno i achub bywyd.
“Dydy hyn ddim oherwydd nad yw pobl eisiau helpu; rydym ni’n gwybod bod 90% o bobl yng Nghymru yn cefnogi rhoi organau. Mae hyn oherwydd nad oes digon o bobl wedi gweithredu eu bwriadau da ac ymuno.
“Y gwirionedd creulon yw bod pobl yng Nghymru yn marw o ganlyniad ac oni bai bod mwy o bobl yn cymryd y cam holl bwysig hwnnw o ymuno a dweud wrth y rhai maen nhw’n eu caru am eu dymuniadau, yna bydd mwy a mwy o bobl yn marw’n ddiangen wrth aros am drawsblaniad.”
For more information or case studies contact Noel Davies, Head of Development, Communications and Events, on 029 2034 3940.
Notes to editors
1. Currently 494 people in Wales are listed for a transplant. This breaksdown to: 443 waiting for a kidney; three for a pancreas; 18 for a kidney/pancreas; five for a heart; 14 for lungs; and 11 for a liver.
2. In the last five years 768 peoples’ lives in Wales have been transformed by the gift of a donor through an organ donor transplant. A further 584 have been given the gift of sight by either a cornea or sclera transplant.
3. Around 10,000 people in Wales are now suffering from some form of chronic kidney disease.
4. With Kidney Wales’ support, the Welsh Assembly Government is steering forward improvements to renal care in Wales including the new renal dialysis unit at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest.
5. A kidney transplant remains the best long-term hope for those suffering with kidney failure. The long-term survival of a kidney transplant continues to improve with 92% of kidney grafts from cadaveric donors and 95% of those from living donors still functioning one-year after transplant.
6. The Kidney Wales Foundation is one of Wales’ oldest and biggest charities. In the 1970s it launched the Kidney Donor Card and a decade established Lifeline Wales – the precursor to today’s Organ Donor Register.
WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Shocking TV advert is launched to promote organ donation in Wales
WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Shocking TV advert is launched to promote organ donation in Wales
Shocking TV advert is launched to promote organ donation in Wales
Mar 12 2009 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl will today plead with the Welsh public “not to let her die”.
A new hard-hitting television advert featuring Sian’s race against time is the latest phase of the Donate Wales campaign to boost the numbers of organs available for transplant.
It has been developed as new figures show that, statistically, one person will die every 11 days in Wales while waiting for an organ transplant.
The 30-second advert, which will be broadcast throughout March, will show Sian hooked up to a haemodialysis machine in hospital.
At the end of the commercial, which can only be screened after 7.30pm because of its hard-hitting nature, Sian – who is played by an actress – says: “Don’t let me die”.
Shocking TV advert is launched to promote organ donation in Wales
Mar 12 2009 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl will today plead with the Welsh public “not to let her die”.
A new hard-hitting television advert featuring Sian’s race against time is the latest phase of the Donate Wales campaign to boost the numbers of organs available for transplant.
It has been developed as new figures show that, statistically, one person will die every 11 days in Wales while waiting for an organ transplant.
The 30-second advert, which will be broadcast throughout March, will show Sian hooked up to a haemodialysis machine in hospital.
At the end of the commercial, which can only be screened after 7.30pm because of its hard-hitting nature, Sian – who is played by an actress – says: “Don’t let me die”.
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
WalesOnline - News - Health News - Olympic medallist joins Walk for Life
WalesOnline - News - Health News - Olympic medallist joins Walk for Life
Olympic medallist joins Walk for Life
Mar 9 2009 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
OLYMPIC silver medallist David Davies will take part in one of Wales’ biggest fundraising events later this month.
The swimmer will join thousands of other people taking part in the Kidney Wales Foundation’s Specsavers Cardiff Walk for Life, which will include a lap of the historic Arms Park.
The walk is one of 50 which will take place across Wales on March 29 to raise money to help children suffering from kidney failure and disease.
Olympic medallist joins Walk for Life
Mar 9 2009 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
OLYMPIC silver medallist David Davies will take part in one of Wales’ biggest fundraising events later this month.
The swimmer will join thousands of other people taking part in the Kidney Wales Foundation’s Specsavers Cardiff Walk for Life, which will include a lap of the historic Arms Park.
The walk is one of 50 which will take place across Wales on March 29 to raise money to help children suffering from kidney failure and disease.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Health Minister, Edwina Hart, to visit Withybush Hospital's new renal dialysis unit (From Western Telegraph)
Health Minister, Edwina Hart, to visit Withybush Hospital's new renal dialysis unit (From Western Telegraph)
Health Minister, Edwina Hart, to visit Withybush Hospital's new renal dialysis unit
9:53am Thursday 5th March 2009
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Welsh Health Minister, Edwina Hart, will today (Thursday) visit a new renal dialysis unit at Withybush Hospital and meet patients and staff benefiting from the new local facilities.
The unit opened in December last year with the ability to treat 12 patients. Since then a dozen more stations have opened and 24 patients can be accommodated .
Health Minister, Edwina Hart, to visit Withybush Hospital's new renal dialysis unit
9:53am Thursday 5th March 2009
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Welsh Health Minister, Edwina Hart, will today (Thursday) visit a new renal dialysis unit at Withybush Hospital and meet patients and staff benefiting from the new local facilities.
The unit opened in December last year with the ability to treat 12 patients. Since then a dozen more stations have opened and 24 patients can be accommodated .
Monday, 2 February 2009
Facebook | BBC NEWS | Health | Donors up but organs still short
Facebook | BBC NEWS | Health | Donors up but organs still short
The number of people on the organ donor register in the UK has hit a record 16 million, meeting a government target of doubling 2001's numbers a year early.
However, the gap between supply and demand for organs is still growing and 1,000 people are expected to die this year while waiting for a transplant.
The number of people on the organ donor register in the UK has hit a record 16 million, meeting a government target of doubling 2001's numbers a year early.
However, the gap between supply and demand for organs is still growing and 1,000 people are expected to die this year while waiting for a transplant.
Friday, 2 January 2009
North Wales father’s transplant bid to give ailing daughter a better life - Daily Post North Wales
North Wales father’s transplant bid to give ailing daughter a better life - Daily Post North Wales
A TERMINALLY ill teenage girl is facing an agonising wait to see whether she will be able to receive her father’s kidney.
Jessica Law, 14, has undergone 15 major operations since she was born.
Her dad John is having tests to see whether he can donate one of his kidneys for a transplant, which will give her a much better quality of life.
Her mum Vona said: “In the meantime, Jessica is going on the waiting list for a kidney from a deceased donor as well, so I would just like to emphasise how important it is for people to carry donor cards.
“We’ve found out in the last few weeks that Jessica has deteriorated even further, and it may mean they have to start dialysis before she can have the transplant, because her blood levels are so unstable.
“The kidney side of it has to take precedence because she is so sick from that, but she’s still got a lot of medical problems that need addressing.
“Jessica has other complications that will require surgical intervention over the next few years which add to the complications of her condition.
“So far, she’s had 15 major operations, everything from a three-hour operation to a 17-hour operation, one which was done in Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
A TERMINALLY ill teenage girl is facing an agonising wait to see whether she will be able to receive her father’s kidney.
Jessica Law, 14, has undergone 15 major operations since she was born.
Her dad John is having tests to see whether he can donate one of his kidneys for a transplant, which will give her a much better quality of life.
Her mum Vona said: “In the meantime, Jessica is going on the waiting list for a kidney from a deceased donor as well, so I would just like to emphasise how important it is for people to carry donor cards.
“We’ve found out in the last few weeks that Jessica has deteriorated even further, and it may mean they have to start dialysis before she can have the transplant, because her blood levels are so unstable.
“The kidney side of it has to take precedence because she is so sick from that, but she’s still got a lot of medical problems that need addressing.
“Jessica has other complications that will require surgical intervention over the next few years which add to the complications of her condition.
“So far, she’s had 15 major operations, everything from a three-hour operation to a 17-hour operation, one which was done in Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
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