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It's Organ Donation Day, donate and save lives

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A nurse carries the human organ transplant box. [iStock Photos]

Today, Kenya joins other countries in marking World Organ Donation Day. This is annual observance that aims at raising awareness and encouraging people to donate organs for sake of saving lives.

The first commemoration was done in 1954 when Ronald Lee Herrick donated a kidney to his identical twin brother and to date the day has been observed annually.

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