Media Articles April 07, 2009
Mila Rainof “Donated Life”
Her death not only sparked a life-saving traffic campaign. Mila Rainof directly saved lives, too, by leaving behind a heart of gold.
The beloved Yale Medical School student, whose death in a traffic accident on April 19 nearly a year ago helped to spark a citywide Safe Streets movement, was a donor of four of her organs.
Rainof’s was one of several moving stories told in an event at the Yale-New Haven Hospital to mark the beginning of Donate Life Month, a national effort to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation.
Mila’s gift,” said Rainof’s dean at the medical school, Dr. Nancy Angoff, “is responsible for saving the lives of four other people.”
“Statewide,” said Kari Mull, Donate Life Connecticut’s program coordinator, “we have 972,000 people signed up to be organ donors. But that’s only 37 percent of the population,” she added. “Utah’s got 67 percent.”
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