On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough speaks with Mark Johnson, the spokesperson for LifePoint, the designated Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) for organ recovery services in South Carolina. LifePoint actively provides organ, tissue and ocular donor services to 62 hospitals throughout the state.
The need for organ donors has never been greater. Presently, there are more than 110,000 people on the national waiting list who need a life-saving organ transplant. Approximately 1,000 of those people are registered in South Carolina. Some of them die each day because the organs that could save their lives never become available.
South Carolina ranks second in the United States in the need for kidney transplants among African-Americans. Kidney failure is four times more likely to affect African-Americans than Whites. High blood pressure and diabetes increase the risk of kidney failure.
This edition of Insight airs Wednesday, August 15th, and Monday, August 20th, at 10:00 AM, 7:00 PM, and Midnight.
