Saturday, February 15, 2025

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Stratford Strong
Organ Donor-Screening Event

Dr. Kara Ventura, DNP
Clinical Program Director
Yale New Haven Transplantation Center

The Stratford Police Department hosted an organ donor-screening event in support of Detective Jennifer Murolo. Murolo, 40, who is in stage 5 of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), is seeking a living kidney donor before dialysis becomes necessary in about four months. Yale New Haven Health’s Organ Donation and Transplantation Unit sponsored the event.

A transplant team from Yale New Haven Transplantation Center came to Stratford and set up at the PAL site. Over 140 people attended the screening event, with 30-40 of those screened going on to the next level of screening.

“Heartwarming” was the description Dr. Kara Ventura, DNP, Clinical Program Director of the Yale New Haven Transplantation Center used to describe the turnout.

Jen is on the kidney transplant list and part of the local kidney swap program through Yale Transplant Center, but since that could take years, her best option is a Living Donor match.

If you donate this precious gift, life with one kidney is very similar to life with two kidneys (happy & normal). You will get your own independent medical team and coordinators who will advise and protect you throughout the entire process. Her insurance picks up the costs of the evaluation and, if compatible, the surgery.

Police said the screening process may lead not only to a kidney donor for Murolo, but possibly to an organ donation for another person in need.

For more information, visit:

https://www.thedonorapp.com/stories/de6d1a83-1233-44a1-bbd5-c80968e0e3c1/public/?utm_source=Anonymous_Anonymous&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=X3KT7sv7&sharer_type=OTH

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