April is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month and the David Foster Foundation is working to encourage Canadians to sign up as organ donors.

Currently, over 4-thousand Canadians are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, with 5 patients dying each week because there are not enough donors.

Mike Ravenhill, CEO of the David Foster Foundation explains here.

“Canada, right now, has one of the worst organ and tissue donor registry rates in all developing countries. We sit just around 30 percent of Canadians are registered organ and tissue donors.”    

Ravenhill says the David Foster Foundation has existed for 38 years and helped over 1400 families with millions of dollars to help them offset the costs of non-medical expenses.

For information on how to become an organ donor, go to DavidFosterFoundation.com.

You can also listen to Thompson Today this afternoon at 12:40 and 5:10.