- Nearly 100,000 men, women and children currently await life-saving organ transplants including over 2,500 people in our region.
- In 2006 more than 7,500 deceased donors made possible more than 21,000 organ transplants.
- An average of 18 people die each day because there are not enough donors.
- As a donor, you can help save or improve the lives of more than 60 people.
- Approximately 1,000,000 tissue transplants are performed annually.
- Cornea transplants are the most common form of tissue transplantation with a 97% success rate.
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- Every 12 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
- In 2005, 44,000 grafts were made available for transplant by eye banks within the United States.
- 90% of Americans say they support donation, but only 30% know the essential steps to take to be a donor.
- According to research, 98% of all adults have heard about organ donation and 86% have heard of tissue donation.
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