BRADFORD Teaching Hospitals is using light to help save lives by turning the Bradford Royal Infirmary pink in support of Organ Donation Week.

Councils, business, hospitals and community groups around the country are turning their buildings pink, which is the colour of the country’s ‘Yes I Donate’ organ donation campaign, between September 26 and October 2 to inspire people to tell their families that they want to be a donor and to register their decision.

Nationally, someone dies every day in need of an organ, and there are almost 7,000 people currently on the active transplant waiting list.

There are more than 30 million people in the UK who have registered their organ donation decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register with more than 27m of them explicitly agreeing to be an organ donor when they die – only around 44 per cent of the UK population.

Karen Piotr, chairperson of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Organ Donation Committee, said: “Bradford Royal Infirmary will look fabulous and I am sure hundreds of people going past will ask questions.

“Sadly, many opportunities are lost every year in Bradford and around the country because families don’t know if their loved one wanted to be a donor or not.”

Register your donation decision at organdonation.nhs.uk

 

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