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Survival rates highly encouraging
Organ transplants have come of age ehilnis Brady
Organ transplantation has come of
age, Bill Brady told the audience at
Granton United Church on Wednes-
day night. Brady was speaking in his
capacity as the founding president of
Transplant International, a group
established to promote awareness of
organ transplants. to encourage peo-
ple to donate their organs. and to
raise funds to turther• organ
transplantation.
Brady is well known from his work
in the broadcast media. and he lived
up to his reputation as an entertain-
ing
speaker
with
several
amusing
Continuing
negotiations
Exeter council will continue
negotiations this week with property
owners who will have lots created by
the opening of John St. E. to facilitate
the erection of the new nursing home.
All the negotiations are being con-
ducted behind closed doors.
Last week, a committee -of -t he -
whole met with Harvey Pfaff and
Bruce Tuckey to teach an agreement
over their costs.
The two owners agreed to pay
v-,, $5,000 to the town for each lot opened
up for development due to the road
opening. The amount is to be paid at
the rate of $5.000 every four year's tor
when a lot is sold, whichever comes
first r until the total amount owing is
paid.
Mayor Bruce Shaw this week term-
ed it a "compromise" solution.
Ile then advised that nursing home
owner Tom Kanampuza would be in
Exeter the following day ('Tuesday I
to negotiate his end of the street
development cost.
Peter Raymond appeared at Mon-
day's council session on behalf of 5I)
Realty to ascertain that firm's status
regarding lots owned along Pryde
Boulevard.
Raymond said the 5i) lots would be
serviced off Pryde and the developers
had no need for John St. to be opened.
Shaw said council would he
prepared to enter into negotiations
with 5D and added that he would call
- Raymond and set up such a meeting.
Raymond responded that.lhere was
some concern over rezoning of the
nursing hone site without consider-
ing the access matter.
Shaw explained that no decisions
would be made at Monday's session
on the opening of John St. or the dos-
ing of Wellington and Raymond
Rec centre
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sidized when minors are included.
Percentage of participation varies
greatly by township among minors'
ice activities. Exeter has a high of
91.67 percent participation in
Ringette. and a low of 57.14 percent
in Precision Skating. Osborne has a
- high of 17.14 percent (Precision
Skating I and a low of 7.94 percent
E Figure Skating) . Stephen has high of
11.11 percent. in Minor hockey. and a
low of 2.86 percent participation. in
Precision Skating. Hay has a high of
10 percent, in Figure Skating, and a
low of 1 percent in Minor hockey.
U ler fees can be a politically hot
topic. In Burlington, a council com-
mittee spent two years developing a
formula for cost recovery. Depending
on the program. the user fees might
. amount to 25. 50 or even 100 percent
of an activity's cost.
"I'he Burlington committee didn't
consult with the community during
the development stage of these pro-
posals, and when the ideas was in-
troduced, there was a great deal of
public outcry. Eventually council
there decided to table (he whole thing.
Questions of whether non-residents
should pay the same as residents for
a service. and whether financial con-
tributions by townships must Ix' mat-
ched to the use made by that
township's residents. disregarding
the township's financial commitment
to their own facilities. are not easily
decided. The debate regarding usage
and support of the South Huron
Recreation ('en:re is not likely to be
resolved in the near future.
opening stories. Once Brady got down
to business, however. the topic was
serious -- and heart -wrenching. Ile
spoke of people who could be saved by
organ transplants but are dying
because there aren't enough organs
being donated. The problem no
longer the state of transplant
technology: the operations that
transplant several organs are well
enough advanced to have very high
success rates: the problem is the lack
of organs.
The evening was organized by Unit
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Women, and Jean Cook and Ann
Bryan were the organizers. Ann
Bryan introduced Brady.
Brady talked about why there is
such a shortage of organs. One reason
is that only 26 percent of the drivers
in Ontario have signed their driver's
licence authorizing that their organs
be taken if they are brain dead, to be
used to save another's life. Another
problem is that even of those drivers
who have signed, their wishes aren't
always made clear enough 10 their
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spouses and families for the family to the anit-rejection drug cyclosporin. doesn't believe in "presumed con-
sent", where it is assumed that you,
drugs and in the operations, have offered your organs unless you
"transplantation is not experimental, have signed something to the con -
it is therapeutic, and for patients to trary. Instead, he feels, it should be
remain disabled because they can't "an act of compassion and nobility".
get a kidney transplant or for them to Transplant International is hoping to
die because they are not offered a have displays and speakers in shop -
liver or heart transplant, reflects a ping malls regularly soon to make
failure in the health care system," people aware of organ donation.
Brady said. An organ donation can make a
Brady cited statistics for survival bereaved family feel their loved one's
rates following transplants. Liver death wasn't entirely in vain, that a
transplantation has achieved a 70 per- part of them still lives on, giving the
cent survival rate for people who gift of life to someone else.
would otherwise die. Hearttransplant Brady told a personal story about
patients have a 60 percent chance of a neighbour of his who lost his wife
survival instead of certain death. suddenly in a tragic accident, and
Kidney transplants have a success learned with Brady at the hospital
rate between 70 and 90 percent, that his wife was brain dead and
depending on the closeness of the would die as soon as removed from
match with the donor. Transplanta- the respirator. Brady was asked by a
tion of corneas for the eye has become doctor in that case to approach the
a casual event for eye surgeons neighbour about donating the wife's
across Canada. organs. The grieving husband agreed,
The cost of transplants is high, and Brady was able to see the woman
Brady acknowledged, but compared who received the - wife's' kidneys
to the cost of long-term care can ac- several years later at a U.H. function,
tually be a saving. For example, it along with a daughter born to her
costs $30,000 a year for kidney dialysis since the transplant.
for one patient. A kidney transplant That was a case, Brady said, where
costs between $17,000 and $20,000. The life continued through organ
first year the savings are small, but transplantation not once, but twice.
every year thereafter, there are enor-
mous savings of money by transplan-
ting instead of hooking people up to a
dialysis machine. And that's just in
economic terms. The quality of life
for someone who's had a successful
transplant is far higher than that for
someone needing dialysis several
times a week just to survive.
Brady sees offering your organs as
an act of "unrequited love". He
remember to offer the organs. Doc- With the advances in anti-rejection
tors are part of the problem too. They
are very uncomfortable when they
lose a patient, and hesitate to prolong
talking to the bereaved family to ask
about organ donation.
University Hospital in London is
probably the main hospital in Canada
for transplantation, and Brady is a
close friend of Dr. Calvin R. Stiller of
U.H. one of the foremost doctors in
the field. He has also met Dr. Jeane
Borel, the Swiss doctor who invented
TYING KNOTS — Lynn Feeney watches Angela Mielke tie a knot in Magician John Parker's kerchief,
in preparation for a trick. Parker's assistant Wanda Mason looks on.
Huron man outlines concern
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"We don't want to go looking for a
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Before (we) know it, they are going
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The meeting passed another motion
from Perth County representatives
urging the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture to become a "farm
chapter" of the Ontario Humane
Society. "Any incident of inhumane
treatment of animals associated with
farms and otherwise (should) be
referred to the farm cha ter."
Ontario pork producers declared
verbal war Thursday on the Animal
Liberation Front extremists who
broke into University of Western On-
tario laboratories and stole research
animals January 1.
"I've been very outspoken against
these groups and I've been warned to
shut up... not by the groups, but fami-
ly and friends," Larry Dillon of Clin-
ton told the annual meeting of the On-
tario Pork •Producers' Marketing
Board. "We cower in the corner until
e ,'re ready for us."
1 on suc
motion by the Huron County Pork
Producers' Assocation that the board
"condemn the actions of the Animal
Liberation Front and similar
organizations" and support the con-
cept of reasonable animal research at
Western.
"We have a responsibility to stand
up and be counted... they + the Animal
Liberation Front 1 say the ultimate
cruelty is raising animals to be
slaughtered for human consump-
tion... we have to support other pro-
fessionals who are under attack." A
copy: of the resolution is being sent to
the research faculty at Western.
But not all the delegates wanted to
be as aggressive in their criticism. An
amendment that would have deleted
the condemnation clause was narrow-
ly defeated by a vote of 119-95.
Don (tuber of Belwood warned that
the condemnation could invite retalia-
tion by the extremists, with the pork
industry as the target. "They can be
egged on by harsh words ... we don't
have to stir the pot."
Adrian Vos of Blyth disagreed. "We
should not be intimidated. The (front )
gets publicity out of all proportion to
their numbers. We have to stand up
at ore point."
Huber successfully initiated a mo-
tion for the Wellington County
delegates that the board set up a stan
ding committee to deal with "any
kind of affront or attack on itself and
its producers" by animal welfare
THERE'S YOUR HOUSE — Ontario Hydro represntative Sheelagh^
Lawrence points out Don Easton's farm on a large map at the Hydro
information day in the South Huron rec centre while Usborne reeve
Gerald Prout examines the map.
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