MC Marcinho’s family launches campaign to encourage organ donation

The funk singer and songwriter, who died of heart and kidney complications, even joined the waiting list for a transplant

The family of singer and composer MC Marcinho has launched a campaign on social networks to encourage organ donation. The funk singer, who died on August 26 of multiple organ failure at the age of 45, suffered from severe heart and kidney problems.

In the post published on Marcinho’s official profile on Instagram, which has more than 700,000 followers, there is the slogan: “If you want to talk about love, talk about organ donation”.

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In the sequence, the text says: “Currently, 386 people are waiting for a heart transplant in Brazil. MC Marcinho was one of these people. The singer had been hospitalized since the end of June for treatment of kidney and heart failure. Unfortunately, the MC died this Saturday morning, the 26th?.

MC Marcinho, known for recording funk fascinating, in fact, entered the transplant list of the Rio de Janeiro Department of Health. However, due to the deterioration of the singer’s health, despite him being the first on the list, it was not possible to perform the surgery.

Source: Terra

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