Tomorrow’s your chance to meet the host of “Michael’s Gifts” heard here on WRCR, Roxanne Watson of Nanuet, who will be at Montefiore Nyack Hospital registering organ donors for the fifth annual “Organ Donor Enrollment Day.” Roxanne waited a long time for her heart, and she’s hoping to make it easier for others to get their gifts of life…
LiveOnNY is a nonprofit that serves as the federally-designated organ procurement organization for the region. Safiya Raheem is their director of community and government affairs, and says 10,000 New Yorkers are currently waiting for a transplant, and Organ Donation Day is a good chance to help them…
Every 18 hours a New Yorker dies waiting for an organ transplant. That’s partially because there aren’t enough New Yorkers registered as organ donors…only 35% are. While a recent study showed that 92% of New Yorkers support organ and tissue donation, not enough have registered. To learn more, visit EnrollmentDay.org or LiveOnNY.org. You can hear Roxanne’s show every Wednesday morning following the 9 o’clock news, and ask her how to become an organ donor.