BLACK SUPER HERO GIRL AIMS TO HELP SAVE LUNG PATIENTS EVERYWHERE
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- Thousands of people receive lung
transplants every year, but only around 50% of them survive over 5
years due to lack of research and technology. The Sid Foundation and
their brown superhero “Lung Girl” that has been sponsored by Google,
Amazon, Trader Joe’s and more, are working to change that by raising
funds to support research and development as well as help lung
transplant patients live longer and healthier lives.The Sid Foundation
is proud to announce "Lung Girl", a comic book about a brown superhero
girl fighting to help people with lung health issues and lung
diseases. The idea of the comic is to provide useful information about
lung health, in a fun and exciting way.
Lung Girl, along with her sidekick, Ecmo (a robot with numerous
gadgets that aid lung disease victims), offers vital information for
readers on their adventures in a race against time to help save the
world from lung diseases. Sales from the comic book are used to help
fund lung transplant research and provide support for lung transplant
patients, so everytime you purchase a comic you can be sure that you
are the real hero.
According to The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, after
receiving a lung transplant, only 78% of patients survive the first
year, and only 51% live for up to 5 years. Thousands of people receive
lung transplants every year. However, lung transplants have the lowest
survival rate among all organ transplantation. Lung transplants are
more complicated procedures than other organ transplants and because
lungs are the only organ in the body that are exposed to the outside
environment (air), this makes it easy for patients to get infections.
Not to mention, lung transplant patients have to shell out enormous
amounts of money, owed to the fact that insurance usually cannot cover
the full cost of surgery as well as the necessary 50 pills a day
regiment. Hospitals don’t have adequate money to do research or
develop technology to increase the survival rate for patients and not
enough attention is being given to lung transplant patients by other
organizations. The Sid Foundation was created to solve this problem
and make life better for lung transplant patients everywhere.
The Sid Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization named after
Sid Vahal, a young man who caught an infection that destroyed his
lungs. He went on to receive a double lung transplant which,
unfortunately only allowed him about 2 more years of life. Sid is
recognized as a hero who fought until his last breath. The foundation
was established to honor him, along with helping other lung transplant
patients survive.
The Sid Foundation has been backed by Google, Amazon Smile, Trader
Joe’s, King of Pops, Prime Vice Studios LLC, Kriya Capital, GATP
Solutions, and many more organizations. The foundation has over the
years helped multiple lung patients and raised over $40,000 dollars
for their support as well as support for the research and development
of lung transplantation. They are currently funding research at the
University Of Kentucky Hospital Lung Transplant Program and have
donated thousands of dollars in supplies, otherwise known as care
packages, to lung transplant patients all over the United States. The
foundation has also sold and donated hundreds of Lung Girl comic books
and merchandise to hospitals, schools, libraries, and comic book fans
around the world.
Lung Girl and The Sid Foundation continue to strive for the betterment
of lung transplant patients around the world, but they need your help.
For more information, to make a donation, purchase a Lung Girl comic,
or support their projects in anyway, please visit
https://www.thesidfoundation.org
Follow on social media:
Instagram - @sid_foundation
Twitter - @Sid_Foundation, Lung Girl: @Lung_Girl
Facebook - @thesidfoundation
LACK SUPER HERO GIRL AIMS TO HELP SAVE LUNG PATIENTS EVERYWHERE
