The money raised by the Love Hearts Appeal for Great Ormond Street Hospital has been used to buy a state-of-the-art cardiac intensive care unit at the London hospital to improve the privacy and care for patients and their families.
Catherine MacLachlan (21), who received her transplant at Great Ormond Street, and her family have now turned their attention to raising funds to support research into transplant medicine and raising awareness about organ donation.
All this week they have been working with the JEP on a series of articles aimed to get Islanders talking about the ‘taboo’ subject in the hope of increasing Jersey’s sign-up rate to the NHS Organ Donor Register from its current low level of nine per cent of the population.
For more information about the Love Hearts Appeal for Great Ormond Street visit www.gosh.org or search Facebook for the Love Hearts Appeal.
