The organization facilitated the life-saving gifts of 150 organ donors in 2016, an 11.1 percent increase from 2015
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WKBN) – A record number of Northeast Ohioans became organ, eye and tissue donors in 2016, Lifebanc said.
Lifebanc is the non-profit organ procurement organization serving a 20-county area in Northeast Ohio.
The organization facilitated the life-saving gifts of 150 organ donors in 2016, an 11.1 percent increase from 2015. A total of 435 organs were transplanted from those individuals, saving the lives of 385 people who had previously been on the transplant waiting list.
Seventy-two percent of the organs were donated to patients at one of Cleveland’s two transplant centers at the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. Continue reading
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