The Living Bank Summer Newsletter 2021

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The need for organs is vastly greater than the number available for transplantation.

107,513

90,759

11,953

National Transplant Waiting List as of June 2021

Based on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Data

11% 86% are waiting for a liver

are waiting for a kidney

A STAGGERING 86% ARE WAITING FO R A KIDNEY AND 11% FOR A LIVER. THAT’S 97% OF THE WAITING LIST THAT COULD BE TRANSPLANTE D NOW THROUGH LIVING ORGAN DONATION.

3,626

1,033

889

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