April is Organ Donor Awareness Month

April is a month dedicated to raising awareness of organ and tissue donations. Sioux City firefighters held a ceremony and raised an organ donation flag Friday. Iowa Donor Network services coordinator, John Jorgensen, spoke at the event.

Melissa Foister spoke about her husband Michael, who died in September of 2020 at the age of 40.

Foister says she’s heard from some of the people who benefited from the donations.

The Sioux City Fire Department received an award for being tops in the state for out of hospital donor referrals. There are more than 600 Iowans waiting for a transplant or tissue donation. You can register to be an organ donor at IowaDonorNetwork.org.