Chemists urged to stock donor cards

THE Kerry branch of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland is distributing organ donation awareness posters around the county.

This poster features 23-year-old Mary Hand from Dingle who is on the waiting list for a double lung transplant in Freeman’s Hospital in Newcastle, England.

The aim of this campaign is to create awareness, to educate and to encourage people to carry organ donor cards and maybe think how lucky they are not to have a life-threatening disease like cystic fibrosis, or indeed any illness that may at some stage lead to the necessity of a transplant.