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    The Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA) welcomes the appointment of Dr Helen Szoke AO as the next Chair of its Advisory Board. The Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA) welcomes the appointment of Dr Helen Szoke AO as the next Chair of its Advisory Board. Dr Szoke brings a wealth of experience to the… New advisory board chair website news article image - photo of Assistant Minister Ged Kearney, OTA past board chair Mal Washer and OTA CEO Lucinda Barry
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    The Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA) is pleased to welcome two new members to its Advisory Board - Ms Shelly Park and Mr Nick Brown. The Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA) is pleased to welcome two new members to its Advisory Board - Ms Shelly Park and Mr Nick Brown. Both members bring a wealth of… OTA welcomes two new members to the Advisory Board
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    A special free public concert in Victoria to mark the start of DonateLife Week. Event datesSunday 28 July 2024, 3 pm to 6 pmEvent locationMemo Music Hall, St Kilda88 Acland St, St Kilda VIC 3182Event detailsThis event is supported by a DonateLife Community Awareness Grant.A special free public…
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    'We are going to the beach tomorrow, I can't wait - I'm dying for a swim ...' She died the next day whilst swimming in the sea at Glenelg, South Australia. It has been the most tragic and desperate time of my life, but through her death she gave me three gifts. My last conversation with Mum… Three gifts
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    I write this on the 12th anniversary of my kidney transplant. A day of thanks, a day when my thoughts return to my donor and donor's family and a day when I reflect on how my life has changed since I first heard the words 'you have renal failure'. I was 37, fit, well and happily married with… Heart Image
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    Early last year, Andrew Conway, clinically died in his sleep after suffering a massive cardiac arrest. “My wife and daughter had to do CPR on me; I was dead for about half an hour,” Andrew says. Against all odds, Andrew was brought back to life by paramedics and transported to hospital where he…
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    Charities, Herd of Hope and Cottages 4 Country Care, were the driving forces behind 'Til the cows come home - a very special delivery of a herd of cattle at the entrance of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Charities, Herd of Hope and Cottages 4 Country Care, were the driving forces behind 'Til… Till the cows come home'
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    While Tim was tinkering in his shed one night in 2006, he was unaware that a life-changing event lay ahead.   In a freak accident, heat from a potbelly stove caused a tin of paint thinners to explode in front of him, engulfing Tim in flames.   As he yelled to his wife,… Tim in a suit and tie sitting in a sport stadium chair looking at the camera
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    Tim's diagnosis with terminal cancer three years ago did not alter his decision to be an organ donor. He used this decision as a way of dealing with his cancer, by way of focusing on others, rather than himself. Unfortunately a year before Tim passed away from cancer he learnt that his… Tim
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    My wife and I have witnessed both sides of the donation and transplantation equation. We became a donor family when our youngest son David died at the age of 20 and became an organ donor, and then later I was to become a recipient following my own lung transplant. Many years ago we were… To Give
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