action with the aim being to promote and educate awareness around organ and tissue donation.

The Donate Life QLD movement offers support and care to donor families as well as welcoming planned discussions around donation outcomes. Donate Life also works with hospitals across the state with the aim to provide professional services to those that require it.

Organ donation is lifesaving and also unique between six months to four years. Approximately 2500 people are currently waiting for a transplant with nearly 1200 people on standby that could benefit from a kidney transplant.

The process of organ and tissue donation has a direct relation to medical factors from donor following transplant organ rejection.

Diseases from cancer, cardiac lung failure (often Australians, infants and those following motor vehicle accidents), and chronic disease. These people together have a transplant wait list and donor.

Those people that require a transplant can face severe hardship with long-term organ failure, kidney, and pancreas.

Although modern medicine saves the lives of many and extends lives, there are still over 1300 Australians who are in need of an organ transplant today.

Due to COVID-19 the donation rates were down by 21 percent across the board receiving transplant and 16 percent have received organ donations.

Since the last 12 months more than 1400 people have received transplants from donors.

Donate Life Week 2021 also looks to help spread the word and ensure each individual and every donor achieves their potential to save and enhance lives. Another goal is to enhance the donation outcomes by adding the number of new registered donors.

There is a national goal to reach 1000 organ donations. This year Donate Life Queensland are fresh approach with a new registered donor form for Australians.

First organ transplant surgeries began in Australia, and we have progressed significantly since the 1960s. Now the number of Australians on the transplant waiting list will be encouraged in conversations about how people will begin discussing registration to the 2021 message of organ donation.

Also, the national plan is to encourage 100,000 new Australians to register with the Organ Donor Register.

There is no other country in the world that has such a wide range of services such as the Donate Life Program. In Queensland this work is being driven with hundreds of volunteers to assist in transplant education in medical teams and donor agencies.

This group of people are called Community Champions and made up of a variety of different family members that represent medical offices, family donor members, and transplant recipients that share their stories in the hope to help create further awareness in all communities.

Community Champions conduct public education events and help families register and spread the word on Donate Life Week and other programs.

Donate Life Queensland is always looking for more Community Champions. To find out more, email:

[email protected]

For those interested in donor transplant suggestions or require information you can contact Donate Life Queensland via phone: (07) 3176 2350 or alternatively by email: [email protected]

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