Operation Donation comes to City Hospital on Friday

September 7, 2018

Colleagues will have the chance to play a life size version of Operation for this year’s Organ Donation Week when it comes to City Hospital, Birmingham Treatment Centre today (Friday 7 September) from 10am-4pm.

NHS Blood and Transplant and the board game company Hasbro have created ‘Operation Donation’ which challenges people to have a go at removing organs from ‘Cavity Sam’ and match them up with some facts and figures about organ donation. Like the popular game, players have two minutes to complete the task, but if they make a mistake they set off a buzzer and have to start again.

The game is touring the country as part of this year’s Organ Donation Week, which runs from 3 to 9 September with the theme ‘Words Save Lives.’ It will be at City Hospital on Friday, September 7, in the Birmingham Treatment Centre from 10am-4pm.

Judith Martin, Specialist Nurse Organ Donation, said: “It’s a fun and interactive way to learn about organ donation and this is what we’d like people to do with their families for Organ Donation Week – just have a chat.

“If you are unsure about donation, please ask yourselves as a family; what would you do if one of you needed a transplant?  Would you accept a life-saving organ? If you’d take an organ, shouldn’t you be prepared to donate?”

Meanwhile if you’re at Sandwell today, the organ donation team will be raising awareness in the foyer of Hallam Restaurant by hosting a stand.

Join the Register at organdonation.nhs.uk