DISTINCTIVE works of art at two hospitals are being used to help promote organ donation week.
Knitted hearts and lungs have been placed on the metal penguins at Worthing Hospital and Brutus the rhino at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester also has them attached to his body.
Brutus also has some knitted birds along his back.
Angela Fisher, chairwoman of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust’s organ donation committee, said: “The serious side to these colourful and amusing additions to the hospitals’ familiar animals is to raise awareness of Organ Donation Week and to spark conversations with loved ones about organ donation.”
On average three people die every day in need of a transplant, due to the shortage of people willing to donate.
There are over 6,500 people currently on the transplant waiting list.
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