This week is National Transplant Week – Only 28% of us in the UK have joined the organ donor register – yet more than 10,000 of us need a transplant. So who’s giving them?
The answer is not enough people. The serious lack of donations mean 1000 per year are dying needlessly. So the purpose of the week is to draw awareness to the problem and make a change.
Kidney transplants are most common, as well as hearts, livers and other organs. Donated corneas also give people a new way of looking at the world!
So how does it work? Donors are matched according to blood and tissue type. People from the same ethnic group are likely to be a closer match – although people from different ethnic groups usually match just as well.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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