FAST FACTS Organ donation

Did you know …
Fifteen people will die today because a compatible organ will not become available?
Every 14 minutes, one name is placed on the waiting list for a donor organ?
A single donor can provide organs and tissues to more that 50 others?
A national computer system is in place to ensure the fair and equitable distribution of organs in the United States?
In most cases, organ donation does not interfere with funeral arrangements, including open-casket viewing?
1,234 patients in northeast Ohio are waiting for organ transplants?
776 are waiting for a kidney?
21 are waiting for a pancreas?
135 are waiting for a heart?
1 is waiting for a heart/lung?
37 are waiting for a lung?
182 are waiting for a liver?
82 are waiting for a kidney/pancreas?
Source: LifeBanc: Organ Donation in Support of Life, 20600 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 350, Cleveland 44122