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Organ Donation -- let's make a difference - Punjabi TV Advert

160 views · Published 21 October 2013 · 0:36 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: Sangat Television · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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More than 10,000 people in the UK currently need an organ transplant. Of these, 1,000 each year (three people a day) die because there are not enough organs available.

Members of the Asian community are more likely to need a transplant but will wait longer than the general population for a donor and they may not get the organ they need. Only around 2% of organ donors each year are Asian but the community makes up nearly a fifth of those who need a transplant. From these figures you can see that there is a major shortfall and that this is a major issue within our community.

Members of the Sangat Trust and the Sangat Television team have worked with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust's organ donation committee at the start of 2013 to produce a series of television shows called: Organ Donation -- let's make a difference. 

The first broadcast of this series shall commence on Tuesday 29 October 2013 at 8.30pm on Sangat Television SKY 847 with the aim of raising awareness and dispelling myths around organ donation in Punjabi and English.  

Sangat Television urges all communities to join the NHS Organ Donor Register and tell their loved ones their wishes. There is a real need in the community for more donors. We all need to think about this matter very seriously, the more people that register -- more lives will be saved.

Visit www.SangatTelevision.org and click on the organ donation icon to place your name on the organ donation register immediately.

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