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The Need for Organ and Tissue Donation
The Total number of transplants for 2005 is 28,108
The number of people currently awaiting life-saving organs for transplant are in excess of: in the pre & post test now item d is 93,000.
Total Candidates 93,050
• Kidney 68,249
• Livers 17,112
• Kidney/Pancreas 2,426
• Pancreas 1,737
• Heart 2,862
• Lung 2,915
• Heart/Lung 147
• Intestine 241
Approximately 6,000 of these people will die this year, waiting for a phone call that did not arrive on time. Though the numbers are frighten in light of their monumental size, they are even more numbing when we acknowledge that each number represents a name, a face, and a personality - for each number represents a human life.
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