![]() ![]() Sign up to be a donor! Be a hero and give the gift of life!Īccepting the National Organ Donor Month 2019 Proclamation is County Clerk Sue Dwyer, DMV Senior Cashiers Kris Lytle and Peter Thomas, and DMV Supervisor Shereen Androsko. One organ donor can save up to 8 lives, and tissue donors can actually enhance as many as 75 lives. Over the past eight years, our DMV staff has signed up more than a thousand new donors and they have made a significant impact on the amount of registered organ donors in Cayuga County. I want to commend our DMV Supervisor Shereen Androsko and the entire DMV staff for their enthusiasm and help in organizing this month-long initiative for many years now. ![]() Our DMV staff participates in trainings so they can answer most questions about organ donation. The public is invited to visit us, ask questions, and complete a donor card. Anyone 16 and older can sign up to be a donor, and it’s a very easy process. While you can sign up any time of year, every April we do fun activities and provide treats to promote organ donation. The office is located at 160 Genesee Street in Auburn. It only takes a few minutes to visit our local DMV Office and sign a donor form, and your decision today can save a life tomorrow. The greatest gift we can give is the promise to save or enhance someone else’s life with organs and tissues that we no longer need. The statistics are truly eye opening! Every 18 minutes a person dies waiting for a transplant, and more than 9,500 patients in the United States are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. Only 32% of adults have enrolled in the New York State Donate Life registry, compared to the national average of 42%, and 46% of Cayuga residents are donors. During the entire month of April, our local DMV Office will be encouraging New Yorkers to learn more about organ, eye, and tissue donation, and the impact it has on thousands of people in New York State.Īlthough New York State has the third highest need for donors in the entire country, New York State has one of the lowest rates of designated donors in the nation. We try to help educate the public on how they can make a huge impact on other people’s lives and families. The DMV is a great place to get people thinking about this important decision 85% of people who enroll in the Donate Life Registry do so through their local DMV Office. Please see information below regarding becoming a donorĬounty Clerk Sue Dwyer and our local DMV Office is partnering with the New York Alliance for Donation (NYAD) to encourage people to become organ/tissue donors. Bees might be small, but they work together with dedication, collaboration, and a strong sense of community.A Message from Sue Dwyer, Cayuga County Clerk: In the last 30 years alone, Donate Life America and the Donate Life Community have registered 170 million organ, eye, and tissue donors in the United States.įor National Donate Life Month 2022, Donate Life America was inspired by the important part bees play when it comes to sustaining life. In 2003, the first National Donate Life Month campaign was launched. In 1992, a national organ, eye, and tissue donation awareness community was established, namely, the Coalition on Donation, later to become Donate Life America. ![]() In 1954, the first kidney transplant was followed and in 1967, by the first heart transplant. You can help save lives by registering & sharing your decision to be an organ donor, and by learning more about living kidney donation at. In 1905, the world’s first corneal transplant was carried out in the Czech Republic. 90,000 Americans are waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant. After the various blood types were identified and techniques to prevent coagulation were invented, ways were found to join blood vessels.įollowing this, organ transplants were performed successfully. In the 20th century, new scientific advances revolutionized the field of organ and tissue transplants. At the time, the difference between blood types was not known, which resulted in several failures. The first successful case happened in 1818, with the procedures created by Dr. ![]() Human-to-human transplantation began with blood transfusion. The first case of systematic tissue transplantation between humans began in the early years of the 19th century. In addition to the development of medicines and knowledge about human health, procedures such as transplanting tissues from one body to another allowed the saving of countless lives and greater longevity for people with access to these technologies. The last 500 years have seen a real revolution in human health. ![]()
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