Organ Donor Registry in Louisiana Hits All Time High
By: Sara DiMura
Updated: October 18, 2011
Are you an organ donor?
Across Louisiana more and more people are becoming organ, eye and tissue donors.
And this month that registry reached more than two million.
"My health reached a level where I had two days and i'd be dead," says Gene Williams, donor recipient.
Gene Williams is a 30-year veteran of the Shreveport Fire Department.
He contracted Hepatitis A during a family vacation to Florida in 2004.
Nearly two months later he was deathly ill, and needed a liver transplant.
Watch the video to hear more about Williams story and to hear from a donor family.
As of this past June nearly 42% of the populations in Bossier and Caddo Parishes are organ donors.
To become an organ donor or for more information go here.
