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News Release
Kidney Foundation supports
organ donation initiatives
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
TORONTO - Kidney Foundation of Canada representatives will be present
at two distinctly important events Thursday related to organ donation
in the province.
Foundation representatives will be present for a press conference
to release a report by The Citizen's Panel on Increasing Organ Donations.
The news conference will be held at 10 a.m. at Toronto General Hospital.
Later in the day, Ontario Director of Government and Professional
Relations Janet Bick will make a presentation at the Public Hearings
on Bill 67, an act to make it mandatory for anyone who applies for,
or renews, a driver's license or health card, to answer an organ
donation question. The private members' bill was introduced by Oakridges
MPP Frank Klees early last year and received second reading on March
30, coinciding with the Foundation's Kidney Health Day at Queen's
Park.
The Kidney Foundation will make its presentation at 4 p.m. in Committee
Room No. 1 Queen's Park.
Kidney Foundation representatives are available for media interviews
immediately following the morning news conference at Toronto General
Hospital and preceding the hearings at Queen's Park in the afternoon.
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Contact:
Mark Nesbitt
Communications Coordinator
The Kidney Foundation of Canada
416-445-0373 ext 243
mnesbitt@kidney.on.ca
Iain McLaren
Communications Coordinator
The Kidney Foundation of Canada
416-671-0800
A copy of
Bill 67 - An Act to amend various Acts to require a declaration
with respect to the donation of organs and tissue on death, is available
on our website at http://www.kidney.on.ca/RP_govt_relations/
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