'I need a little bit more than prayer, I need a kidney'

As part of Organ Donation Week, <i>The Voice</i> spoke to Primrose Granville about common misconceptions about organ donation and why it’s vital that more people from the African Caribbean community have the conversation about the life-saving act

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Alannah Francis

PRIMROSE GRANVILLE is living with polycystic kidney disease and facing the reality that one day in the near future, she will need a kidney transplant. At some point, her son, who also has the hereditary condition, will also be confronted with same news.

But despite the high number of black patients requiring transplants, donors are severely lacking.

In the year 2016/17, only 17 people with an African Caribbean background donated a kidney.

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