Billie pleads with public to carry donor cards

A 29-YEAR-OLD man waiting for a life-saving lung transplant yesterday pleaded with people to carry organ donor cards.

Billy Burke said he was “very upset” to hear callers to radio shows urging people to tear up their cards in protest at the refusal of doctors in Newcastle, England, to release organs for his transplant.

“Rather than telling people not to give organs, I take the completely opposite view,” he said.