Toronto Automobile Dealers Association
Rolls Out Support for Organ and Tissue Donation
 Toronto
Auto Show, February 21, 2003 – To help get
organ and tissue retrieval teams to their
destination and deliver donated organ and
tissues to waiting patients, the Toronto
Automobile Dealers Association’s (TADA) today
donated a brand new van to Ontario’s Trillium
Gift of Life Network.
In a ceremony at the 2003 Canadian
International Auto Show, Dominic Mesiano,
Chairman of the Board of Directors of TADA,
handed over the keys to a 2003 Dodge Caravan to
Dan Newman, Ontario’s Associate Minister of
Health and Long-Term Care.
“The Toronto Automobile Dealers Association
is pleased to work with the province to help
people in our community get back their lives. If
this van can make a difference for just one
patient, then it will have more than done its
job,” TADA Chairman Mesiano said.
In addition to the van, the 300 TADA members
will display brochures, posters and printed
information on the Trillium Gift of Life Network
in their dealerships across the greater Toronto
area.
These publications stress the importance of
organ and tissue donation to the hundreds of
Ontario whose lives hang in the balance as they
wait for donated organs and tissue. Prominently
featured in this material is information on the
“living donation” of kidneys – giving the gift
of life to friends or relatives, many of whom
now rely on hours of hemodialysis each week to
stay alive.
FACTS:
Everyone is a potential organ and tissue
donor, regardless of age. The oldest Canadian
organ donor was over 90 years of age while the
oldest tissue donor was 102 years old.
In December 2002 – 1773 people were on the
waiting list for a organ transplants in Ontario
– in 2001 90 Ontario residents died while
waiting for suitable donors.
Why not check you local area to what you can
do to help save a life
www.giftoflife.on.ca |
