The University of Minnesota is promoting National Donate Month by asking Minnesotans to sign up to be organ, tissue, and eye donors.
Dr. Elizabeth Aby at the U of M, says donations can help in over 80 ways…“Heart valves can save the lives of infants born with heart defects, donation of ligaments can help repair a torn ACL, and then parts of the eyes that can be donated are the corneas, the sclera, and the eye in general.”
Aby says more than 100,000 people in the U-S are currently waiting for an organ donor, with over 3,000 of them waiting in Minnesota.
(content: courtesy MNN)
