Written answers
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Department of Health
Organ Donation
Tom 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]
Leo 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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