The goal of the organization is to SAVE more lives by promoting organ, eye, and tissue donation and transplantation, through awareness and education in order to increase the donor registry. Given over 120,000 people are on the donor needs list and only about 25% will become recipients, many are dying. So sign up at your DMV or online (www.DonateLifeNC.org/register). The beneficiary is LifeShare of
the Carolina's, whose goal is the same. The Organ Donor Patient Statistics (OPTN statistics as of 2/13/15)
• Patients waiting for transplant = 123,208 nationwide/3,138 in NC
• Nationwide – On average 21 patients die each day, or 7,665 per year, waiting on a transplant
• One person can save 8 lives, and on the average, a donor saves 3 lives and improves the lives of over 50 others
• Nationwide, every 10 minutes, a person is added to the donor list
• Patients waiting on a kidney = 101,603 nationwide/3,138 in NC
• Patients waiting on a liver = 15,379 nationwide/235 in NC
• Patients waiting on a heart = 3,986 nationwide/123 in NC
At the current trend, in 5 years, the patient list will approximate 277,000, or a 124% increase
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