Celebrated each year on February 14th, National Donor Day, also known by some as National Organ Donor Day, is a day to increase the awareness of lives that can be saved by donating organs, tissues, blood and etc. In the United States, there are more than 100,000 people waiting for a life-saving organ donation.
* National Donor Day focuses on 5 different types of donations: Organs – Tissues – Marrow – Platelets – Blood
* Many nonprofit health organizations sponsor blood and marrow drives and organ/tissue sign-ups across the nation.
* It is said that every two minutes, there is someone in the world that needs blood.
* With new and improved content and important information for the public, in 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services launched a new and improved organdonor.gov web site.
** Give the gift of life **