Organ Donation Defined
What is organ donation?
Why is it important?
Organ donation is so important because there are so many people actually on the organ donor waiting lists. At this time, we've got over 8000 people in the U.K. waiting for organs. And every year we're losing over 400 of them because their organs come too late for them. And approximately 170 of those are for children. And people don't realize that every age gets affected by organ donation for transplantation.
What is tissue donation?
Tissue donation is things like skin, bone, tendons, corneas. Especially corneas, because you can actually give the sight to people with your corneas. With skin, it's used for burn victims so that they won't have to have so many grafts, tendons for sport injuries, bones for road traffic accidents. There are so many things that you can actually donate.
What is living kidney donation?
Where can I find information about organ donation?
You can find out about organ donation from our website, which is www.transplantsinmind.org.uk, or you can go onto www.uktransplant.org.uk, which is the NHS Health Authority website.
How many donations are needed a year?
How many successful transplants take place every year?
