Lives Transformed Across Oklahoma
LifeShare Celebrates Donate Life Month
Lives are transformed across the state because of organ and tissue donors. Each April, LifeShare Oklahoma celebrates Donate Life Month, an observance to focus attention on the need for and importance of organ, eye and tissue donation. This celebration shares the importance of registering every person’s decision to be a donor and honoring the gift of life – recognizing that the generosity of donors makes saving lives through transplantation possible.
LifeShare Oklahoma is the organ procurement organization in Oklahoma responsible for the recovery of organs and tissue for transplant.
More than 114,000 people across the country are currently waiting for lifesaving transplants, and 740 of those are waiting here in Oklahoma. Thousands more wait for lifesaving and healing tissue transplants.
“In 2022, LifeShare coordinated the recovery of 249 organ donors and 1,106 tissue donors. The work of our team and hospital partners allowed 535 lives to be saved through donation,” said Jeffrey Orlowski, President and CEO of LifeShare Network. “While Donate Life Month exists as an opportunity to honor our heroic donors and celebrate lives that have been saved, it is also a time to remember that more than 740 Oklahomans still await lifesaving transplants. We hope residents of the state will join us in raising awareness about donation.”
The Donate Life Month theme was inspired by dragonflies. The dragonfly serves as a symbol of hope, courage and transformed life – themes repeatedly found within the donation and transplantation journey.
A dragonfly’s scurrying flight across water represents the courage Oklahomans have when choosing to register as an organ, eye and tissue donor.
Allow yourself to transform and save lives by registering your decision to be an organ, eye and tissue donor.
LifeShare Oklahoma is the organ procurement organization in Oklahoma responsible for the recovery of organs and tissue for transplant.
More than 114,000 people across the country are currently waiting for lifesaving transplants, and 740 of those are waiting here in Oklahoma. Thousands more wait for lifesaving and healing tissue transplants.
“In 2022, LifeShare coordinated the recovery of 249 organ donors and 1,106 tissue donors. The work of our team and hospital partners allowed 535 lives to be saved through donation,” said Jeffrey Orlowski, President and CEO of LifeShare Network. “While Donate Life Month exists as an opportunity to honor our heroic donors and celebrate lives that have been saved, it is also a time to remember that more than 740 Oklahomans still await lifesaving transplants. We hope residents of the state will join us in raising awareness about donation.”
The Donate Life Month theme was inspired by dragonflies. The dragonfly serves as a symbol of hope, courage and transformed life – themes repeatedly found within the donation and transplantation journey.
A dragonfly’s scurrying flight across water represents the courage Oklahomans have when choosing to register as an organ, eye and tissue donor.
Allow yourself to transform and save lives by registering your decision to be an organ, eye and tissue donor.
