Donate Life Organ and Tissue Donation Blog℠: The United States of Organ Donors

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

Friday, June 15, 2012

PositiveMed

Every 10 minutes someone is added to the National Transplant Waiting List.
Every donor can on average save up to 8 lives.
Every day an average of 79 people receive organ transplants and 18 people die waiting for transplants.
The gap between organ donors and people on the transplant waiting list continues to widen.

Check out this amazing infographic to find some very important information about organ donation.

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