Donate Life Organ and Tissue Donation Blog℠

March 23, 2013 - - - - 117,280 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST

95,578 waiting for a kidney

15,712 wait-listed for a liver

1,189 waiting for a pancreas

2,136 needing a Kidney-Pancreas

3,490 waiting for a life-saving heart

1,668 waiting for a lung

50 waiting for a heart-lung

257 waiting for small bowel

One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives

One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals

You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HERE

Monday, January 3, 2011

United States Transplant Wait - List, January 3, 2011

Candidates, all organs: 110,229

By Organ:

OPTN / UNOS data accessed: January 3, 2011