Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life

For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage.
Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ transplant can seem unattainable.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona is working to change that.
A new patient outreach program is helping to connect American Indians and Alaska Natives with the lifesaving transplants they need. Marty Velasco Hames takes us to the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona where one man says the program helped save his life.
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