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| |  Statistics These numbers represent people - family, friends and neighbors. It is the goal of the Department of State along with its organ donation partners to decrease the number of people waiting for a transplant. You can help by adding your name to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry. Number of Michigan residents waiting for:
| | | Kidney | 2,504 | | Heart | 70 | | Lung | 58 | | Liver | 304 | | Kidney/liver | 13 | | Kidney/heart | 1 | | Pancreas | 25 | | Kidney/pancreas | 63 | | | ____ | | TOTAL | 3.038 | | |
In Michigan:
2007 Number of Organ Transplants: 881
2008 Organ Transplants year-to-date: 675
Source: Gift of Life Michigan - October 2008
| In the United States . . . - More than 100,300 people are waiting for an organ transplant.
- On average, 18 people die each day waiting for a transplant (nearly 6,700 people in 2007).
- Every 12 minutes a new name is added to the national waiting list.
Sources: Gift of Life Michigan and the United Network for Organ Sharing, October 2008  |
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