![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/more-organ-donors-are-needed-than-ever-with-waiting-times-on-the-rise/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/vector-cartoon-cute-happy-heart-772041592.jpg&description=ORGAN donation is on the rise, with almost 30 million of us registered to give the ultimate gift and save a stranger's life. Last year, vital organ transplants — kidney, heart, liver, pancreas, small bowel and lung — kept more than 4,000 recipients alive. Organ donors are on the rise but there are still not enough to cope with demandCredit: Shutterstock But there are still more people on the transplant waiting list than there are donors, with 6,250 — including 200 children — waiting for these lifesaving operations. Dr Matthew Byrne from charity We Are Donors says becoming a donor could help to save one of the two to three people who die every day while waiting for a transplant. By law, every adult in England is considered to have agreed to be a donor after death, if their organs are needed, unless they have recorded a decision to opt out. If you decide you don't want to donate but change your mind, you can opt in again on the NHS register. When a person dies, their family can refuse to donate their organs if they have information that their loved one would not have wanted to do so. Dr Byrne said: 'We want people to have those important conversations with loved ones about whether you're happy to donate your organs when you die. "There's no age limit to who can donate.' Some 60 per cent of organ donations come from people who have died, while 39 per cent are from living donors. Most living donations are a kidney. All vital organs — except the brain — can be transplanted, as well as the cornea. There are currently more than 5,000 waiting for a kidney, 600 needing a liver, 300 on the heart transplant list, 300 needing a new lung and 300 waiting for a pancreas, according to NHS figures. And for some of those, there are less than half the number of donors available. Organ donors and recipients are matched by blood typeCredit: Shutterstock 'PROBLEMS AT BIRTH' Dr Byrne added: 'When someone needs an organ transplant, it is because one of their organs has stopped workin){kind=link}
ORGAN donation is on the rise, with almost 30 million of us registered to give the ultimate gift and save a stranger’s life.
Last year, vital organ transplants – kidney, heart, liver, pancreas, small bowel and lung – kept more than 4,000 recipients alive.
But there are still more people on the transplant waiting list than there are donors, with 6,250 – including 200 children – waiting for these lifesaving operations.
Dr Matthew Byrne from charity We Are Donors says becoming a donor could help to save one of the two to three people who die every day while waiting for a transplant.
By law, every adult in England is considered to have agreed to be a donor after death, if their organs are needed, unless they have recorded a decision to opt out.