Tuesday, April 22, 1986
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Tissue, organ banks seek donors
by Lynn Maree Ross
Staff writer
Tissue and organs used in transplant operations are in short supply, so President Reagan and his staff hope to increase public awareness of the need by laminating Orteg's tissue Donor Awareness Week.
The lack of organ donations in Kansas and the United States is a serious problem, Kalen Larson, assistant director of public relations for the Wichita Regional Tissue Bank, said yesterday. The Center for the American Cancer Society Transplantation Services retrieves skin and bone from donors and serves as the state's tissue bank.
The lack of skin donors means only one-tenth of the tissue needed is supplied, and bone donations are just as scarce. Larson said he is in the United States needed bone transplants each year.
transplants each year. "We can't even begin to meet the need for bone transplants," Larson said.
Doctors use skin transplants at temporary dressing for burn patients. Larson said the bones from one donor can help more donors can use 40 different products made from donated bones.
For example, doctors use ribs for facial reconstruction and crushed bone to fill in bones where
a tumor has been removed.
Kidneys and hearts also are in short supply.
Jane Warmbrodt, from the Midwest Organ Bank in Kansas City, Mo., said the bank had 324 people on its waiting list for kidnery.
day. "This month we've had one donor," she said.
But the need for hearts varies from day to day. The organ bank may have one person waiting for a heart one day and three the next
other. Although Lawrence Memorial Hospital made no special plans for Donor Awareness Week, Warmbrodt said, most of the hospitals in Kansas and Missouri planned to participate. Those that are par-
tiptipping are educating people about organ donation and encouraging them to sign organ donor cards.
"That's the most important thing we're trying to get across this week," Warmbrodt said.
But signing a driver's license or donor card is only half the battle.
People may donate organs by signing the back of their driver's license or by signing a separate donor card. The advantage of signing a donor card, she said, is that the donor isn't required to renew it, as he would with a driver's license.
Warmbrodt said that even if someone signed a donor card, his family could deny the request.
Med Center performs 13th heart transplant
By a Kansan reporter
Kenneth Collins, 45, became the University of Kansas Medical Center's 13th heart-transplant recipient yesterday, a hospital spokesman said.
Nancy Miller, spokesman in the University Relations office, said KU's transplant team operated on Collins yesterday, after a three-
month wait for a donor heart.
inocellus. Collins a Wichita resident, suffered from atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease. He has had bypass surgery. Collins is listed in critical condition, Miller said, but it is standard for a transplant patient to be listed in critical condition after the operation.
Philadelphia division of Fleming Companies Inc., a company spokesman said. A heart attack hospitalized Collins in February 1985, then in October, his heat condition forced him to leave the
ton after the operation Until last year, Collins worked as a distribution manager for the
Miller said Collins had been confined to his home.
She said the delay in getting a donor was an indication of the need
for transplant organs. The Reagan administration hopes to heighten awareness of the need for organ donations this week.
Collins is married and has three children.
James Hale became the Med Center's first heart-transplant patient in July 1984. All but two of the 13 transplant patients are still alive.
Scholarships await state to OK budget
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
A proposed scholarship program that would grant money to education majors now hinges on the tenuous state budget situation to be resolved this week by the Kansas Legislature.
State Sen. Gerald Karr, D-Emporia, said yesterday that a bill that would grant scholarships worth $750 a semester to college education majors awarded a legislative compromise on a state sales-tax increase.
Under the bill, the Board of Regents would award scholarships to 300 education students. The graduates could then teach in an accredited Kansas school to foreign repayment. The student will serve on the master basis for each semester the recipients taught in an accredited Kansas school.
late sales tax increased.
"It's going to depend a lot on what happens with the revenue," Karr said. "With the sales tax in hand, I think its got a possibility. But the time is running out."
State Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, said that the total cost to the state would be $450,000 a year but that it could be worked into the Regents budget, which covers the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
The two chambers are expected to compromise on the sales tax bill this week after a 10-day recess. Several appropriation bills, including the Regents, remain in limbo until the bill is approved.
Kerr said the old give out dident Reagan's 1983 report on the country's education system and was designed to attract more education students.
Statistics from 1984 also indicated that enrollment of education students was declining.
was beetling.
"The idea is to try to get the high qualifying students to go into education," he said.
Karr said the Senate passed the proposal last year and it was now up to the House. Both the House Education and the Ways and Means Committees recommended the bill, which was a good sign, he said.
is a good idea.
"I don't think there is a lot of negative feeling about the bill," Karr said.
said.
If the measure passes the House, it must become part of the Regents appropriation for the scholarships will be handed out, he said. It is possible that part of the two-step process could be settled this year and the rest next session.
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