Mahmud Nawaz, director at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and ambassador for the British Transplant Games, said the cards would encourage people to sign the register and have a conversation with loved ones about organ donation.<\/p>\n
His wife died of a sudden severe brain haemorrhage aged just 32. <\/p>\n
Nawaz said: “I lost my wife in 2004 and she went on to become an organ donor and saved four lives, including a little boy who wouldn’t have made it to two without the smaller part of her liver. <\/p>\n
“That all came about because we’d had the conversation about organ donation in advance, so I knew she wanted to be a donor. <\/p>\n
“And that came about because she carried a donor card in her purse. So we had that conversation as a result of the card.”<\/p>\n
Nawaz said he was “prepared” to face the question from medics when she died because he knew in advance that his wife wanted to donate her organs.<\/p>\n
“That prepared me at the worst possible time when you lose someone in quite a sudden and traumatic way, to be able to say yes, because that’s what she wanted,” he said.<\/p>\n
“As a result of that, those four people got that gift of life as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mahmud Nawaz, director at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and ambassador for the British Transplant Games, said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}