Representative Jeff Currey Needs A New Kidney. Live Donors Can Help.
State Representative Jeff Currey is a longtime public servant. Now he’s asking the public to help him. The East Hartford lawmaker is in kidney failure, and he needs a transplant.
This hour, he joins us to talk about kidney donation. We often think of organ donation as something considered after someone’s death, but living donors can give a kidney to a person in need.
Coming up we hear from patients, donors, and medical professionals about this lifesaving transplant.
And we learn about a revolutionary system that pairs matching donors and patients--that allows for multiple kidney…
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