On Saturday, hundreds of participants were present at the foot of Mont Relais, surrounded by family and friends. Seven teams were able to surpass each other and climb to the summit, for a climb of more than an hour.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the event, the volunteer police officers of the Canadian Association for Organ and Tissue Donors are highlighted. This year, two standard bearers represented the event in Quebec.
Sergeant-investigator Pier-Anne Paré, police officer for the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) for more than 16 years, as well as Sergeant Sébastien Proulx, police officer since 1999 with the SQ.
“We are highlighting an important link: the police.”
— Lucie Dumont, president and founder of Chaîne de vie
Both have the same cause in their hearts. Community involvement with the Canadian Organ and Tissue Donation Association. On a voluntary basis, they transport and coordinate the transport of organs.
During the weekends of October 12, 13 and 14 and October 19 and 20, hundreds of people come together to climb mountains and send a message of hope to people waiting for a transplant in Quebec.
The public is invited to make donations to the teams, including doctors, nurses, people who have undergone a transplant and relatives of donors.
Young people involved
On October 17, the founder of the organization, Lucie Dumont, will climb with around a hundred students from the Thetford Mines high school. The challenge in the Chaudière-Appalaches Sud sector was even moved for the occasion. The new date coincides “perfectly” with World Organ Donor Day, October 17, according to the founder.
The event, at Mount Adstock, will “highlight the importance of education about organ donation in schools,” rejoices Ms. Dumont.
Police officer Guillaume Turmel of the Sûreté du Québec and his team will also be present on Mount Adstock, to collect donations.
Commission on Organ Donation
For the occasion, Ms. Dumont found it important to recall the last commission on organ donation.
In 2023, the liberal André Fortin presented an initiative mandate aimed at studying ways to facilitate organ or tissue donation. The following year, during the Health and Social Services Committee, one of the hot topics was inevitably the possible establishment of the presumption of consent for organ and tissue donation.
“That’s the worst thing that could happen,” said the president and founder of Chaîne de vie.
According to her, the methods must be modernized and “in 2024, consent cannot be presumed”. Ms. Dumont impatiently awaits the recommendations that will emerge from this commission.
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