Mid-South Transplant Foundation

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Artavius Veasey, Digital Communications Coordinator for Mid-South Transplant Foundation, who shares his personal story as a kidney recipient and donor family member and highlights how the nonprofit organization has been connecting lives through organ donation since 1976. As the federally designated not-for-profit organ procurement organization for counties in western Tennessee, northern Mississippi and eastern Arkansas, Mid-South Transplant Foundation provides services including organ procurement, tissue recovery, laboratory testing, 24-hour rapid response to referrals from hospital partners, and an array of community education promoting the importance of donation.

During the interview, Artavius shares how this July will mark the 20-year anniversary of his lifesaving kidney transplant and how his biological father was the living donor. He shares how he and his mother have both been the recipients of kidney transplants, how his brother's passing was a gift to many others, and why being a donor family is so important to help save lives here in our community. Artavius then highlights Mid-South Transplant Foundation and their efforts and mission to improve lives through organ and tissue donation, and then discusses their new multi-media campaign, "Yes You Should." He talks about the influencers who are involved in the campaign and why there is a great need in the African American community to increase awareness and the number of organ and tissue donors. He wraps up talking about how the community can support their efforts and easily register to become an organ and tissue donor.

Visit http://midsouthtransplant.org to learn more about Mid-South Transplant Foundation or YesYouShouldMidSouth.org to learn more about the Yes You Should campaign and register to become an organ and tissue donor.

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