Today, September 9, 2015, there are 122,539 men, women and children on the national waiting list for organ, eye and tissue transplants according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Every ten (10) minutes a new person will be added to that list.
Of those on the national waiting list up to one third of them will not survive long enough to receive an organ transplant due to the critical shortage of available organs. An average of 20 people die each day while waiting for a transplant.
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