Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 55, had a liver transplant rescue last year. Yesterday he appeared unexpectedly at the hospital at Stanford Lucile Packard Children tell their story transplantation.
Mercury News reports Jobs said: "I was almost one of those who died waiting for a liver in California last year."
Jobs joined Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an effort to push the new California law that would expand the number of donor organ California.
Procurement and transplantation Network (OPTN), and this morning there are 106 627 in the United States awaiting organ transplants. The number of people who are in need of donor organs continues to grow. There are currently more than 21,000 Californians waiting donor organs.
Last year, Florida has launched a new website, www.DonateLifeFlorida.org, to make it easier for Florida to become organ donors. The new legislation is sponsored by California State Senator Elaine Alquist, D-San Jose would require applicants for driver's licenses to answer whether they will be organ and tissue donor before the Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue their license. Those wishing to donate will be added to the state registry.
Currently, DMV issues a license regardless of whether the applicant answer that question. It is reported that of 26 million drivers in California, only 6.3 million have signed an organ and tissue donors.
The bill also creates a "California Living Donor Registry," which connects sick patients altruistic strangers who are willing to donate a kidney.
Commending Jobs, the governor said: "What I like Steve because he is a wealthy man, who helped him get a transplant, but he does not want to -. That only rich people can get a transplant and the plane waiting to take him anywhere, he needs to go. He wants every man, if you have no money at all, or if you're a rich man in the world. Everyone should have the right to receive transplants at once. "
Mercury News reports Jobs said: "I was almost one of those who died waiting for a liver in California last year."
Jobs joined Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an effort to push the new California law that would expand the number of donor organ California.
Procurement and transplantation Network (OPTN), and this morning there are 106 627 in the United States awaiting organ transplants. The number of people who are in need of donor organs continues to grow. There are currently more than 21,000 Californians waiting donor organs.
Last year, Florida has launched a new website, www.DonateLifeFlorida.org, to make it easier for Florida to become organ donors. The new legislation is sponsored by California State Senator Elaine Alquist, D-San Jose would require applicants for driver's licenses to answer whether they will be organ and tissue donor before the Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue their license. Those wishing to donate will be added to the state registry.
Currently, DMV issues a license regardless of whether the applicant answer that question. It is reported that of 26 million drivers in California, only 6.3 million have signed an organ and tissue donors.
The bill also creates a "California Living Donor Registry," which connects sick patients altruistic strangers who are willing to donate a kidney.
Commending Jobs, the governor said: "What I like Steve because he is a wealthy man, who helped him get a transplant, but he does not want to -. That only rich people can get a transplant and the plane waiting to take him anywhere, he needs to go. He wants every man, if you have no money at all, or if you're a rich man in the world. Everyone should have the right to receive transplants at once. "
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