Written answers

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Photo of Tom FlemingTom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting transplants in each of the following, heart, liver, lung, kidney and pancreas; and due to current shortfall in donors the number of Irish patients being facilitated abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13005/15]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The number of patients awaiting organ transplants are as follows:

Transplant Type
Number waiting
Kidney
585
Liver
41
Lung
35
Heart
21
Kidney/Pancreas
9
Pancreas
3
Total
694

No Irish patients are transplanted abroad due to a shortfall in donors.

Arrangements are in place with the UK to facilitate a small number of paediatric heart and lung transplant patients. In addition, patients eligible for the paired kidney exchange programme are facilitated in the UK.

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