Gretchen Starnes (from left) with the Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, Terrie Sharp, mother of organ donor Sheldon Sharp, and Miranda Marcum, KODA, raise a Donate Life flag Friday on the Med Center Health Campus during a Donate Life flag raising ceremony and moment of silence. Currently, the…

Currently, there are more than 100,000 people on the national transplant waiting list, with more than 1,000 people in Kentucky waiting. Each day, 17 of those people die while waiting for an organ transplant. A single donor can save 8 lives and enhance 75 others, per an MCH press release.