NEDS: A CT Navy veteran wants you to know organ donation is a ‘beautiful thing’. 1,000+ people are waiting
A Connecticut Navy veteran is spreading the word about the lifesaving work organ and tissue transplantation has on thousands of military members across the country.
Chas MacKenzie, who joined the U.S. Navy in 1984 and became a hospital corpsman at Naval Hospital San Diego, is now working for New England Donor Services as their director of donation development. In this role, MacKenzie serves as a leader on the tissue donation services team, where he works to maximize organ donation and bring attention to its importance.
“The Navy was one of my first introductions to knowing there was even such a thing as transplantation in medicine,” MacKenzie said. “At the end of corps school, we were told that there was additional schooling to become a transplant technician. I didn’t take the Navy up on that, but I always looked back on that as sort of planting the seed in my mind for what an interesting field of medicine transplantation is.”
Read the full story here: https://www.courant.com/2024/11/11/connecticut-navy-veteran-spreading-the-word-of-lifesaving-organ-donation/