The  CEO of The David Foster Foundation Michael Ravenhill says there’s currently over 44 hundred patients waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the country.

He adds that while 90 per cent of Canadians support organ donation only 32 per cent are registered.

Ravenhill highlights some of the hesitancies people may have when it comes to signing up to be an organ and tissue donor noting one would be misinformation or education.  He says the other is people are concerned if they are on the registration list and they’re ill in the hospital will the medical team let them die so they can get the organs stating it’s completely not true, it’s not how it works in the medical system, doctors and front line workers are there to save our lives.  He adds so many times he hears people say I may be too old, nobody wants any of my organs because I’ve done things in my life that would make my body not a perfect specimen but that’s not the case either because there’s so many organs and tissues in a body that can help save a life.

Ravenhill says one organ donor can save up to eight lives and benefit the quality of life for up to 75 people.