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Friday, May 22, 2015

This is Ryan posing for Recycle Me organ donation awareness!
Recycle Me just started to collaborate with the 4 Blind Mice a visual arts and illustration collective based in Nelson Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth South Africa. Together we want to share knowledge and information about organ donation all around the world.

Ryan Allan is an illustrator from Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. His primary interest is in how art, specifically street art and graphic novels, can be used as a tool for social change, and through the use of his 2-dimensional alter-ego "Sanjeev”, aims to communicate various environmental issues. He is currently a member of the 4 Blind Mice.

Ryan is also a co-founder of the CREATIVExPE initiative, which aims to connect local artists, and build the creative community in the city through social events, workshops and creative collaborations.

More information about Ryan’s work;
www.facebook.com/4blindmice
Twitter and Instagram: @4_blindmice
www.facebook.come/creativexpe
Twitter and Instagram: @creativexpe

More information about Recycle Me;
www.recycleme.life
Instagram: @recycle_me_life
Twitter: @RecycleMeLife

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FACTS
The number of donors in Sweden is not sufficient to meet the need for organs of all the patients awaiting transplantation.

Diseased organs and tissues can be replaced through the transplantation of healthy organs and tissues from another person. It is possible nowadays to transplant organs such as kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs and pancreas. It is also possible to transplant tissues such as skin, bone, corneas and cardiac valves.

It is not necessary for anybody to abstain from making known his or her wish to donate for reasons of age, living habits or possible illnesses. The medical services give everyone who registers as a donor a thorough medical examination if he or she should come into question for donation.

For an organ donation to be possible, a person must die and be certified as dead of a total brain infarct while currently being treated in a respirator. In these circumstances the heart is being oxygenated although the person is dead. Only a few of the people who die each year in Sweden, around 300 out of circa 95,000 persons, can be considered as organ donors.

In order to establish death, the doctors make several thorough examinations. Sometimes even the blood vessels in the brain are subjected to contrast x-rays. According to the law, treatment by respirator may be continued for a maximum of 24 hours after death has been established in order to investigate whether or not an organ donation can be considered.

It is the duty of the medical services to find out the deceased person’s point of view and it is always his or her most recently expressed wish that counts. They look for a donor card, search the Donor Register and ask the next-of-kin. When a person’s wishes are unclear then consent is the point of departure, although in that case the next-of-kin have the right of veto.

To avoid a difficult situation for your next-of-kin, in which they have to make a decision on your behalf, you need to make a decision yourself and also to make your decision known.

Source: The Swedish Council for Organ and Tissue Donation (Donationsrådet)

Friday, May 22, 2015

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