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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-03-20, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, March 20, 1985 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 Continued from front page 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 BEST INTEREST ' Guaranteed 123/8% Investment Certificates ' subject to change Gaiser.Kneale �r, Insurance Brokers Inc Ito Exeter Grand Bend 235.2420 238-8484 Clinton Goderich 482-9747 524-2118 3 of the Granton United Church 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 yJ r• 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 • ADAMS Hooting & Cooling • Heating Systems of all types INSTALLED, MODERNIZED and MAINTAINED • General' Sheet Metal Work • Air Conditioning • Humidifiers • Ventilation 235.2187 133 Huron St. E., Exeter Pig farniers attack front "We don't want to go looking for a fight, but we must be ready to defend ourselves when the problem arises. Before (we) know it, they are going to hit us from behind or will blindside us." 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." 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