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Thursday, 14 December 2017

Department of Health

Organ Donation Data

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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433. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for organ donation and transplant rates; if they have been achieved in 2017; and if not, the progress made towards achieving the targets [53884/17]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Progress on organ donation and transplantation is monitored by my Department on a monthly basis. To the end of November 2017, there have been a total of 138 donors which resulted in 290 transplants. A breakdown of the organ donation and transplant figures for recent years follows:

Annual Transplant Statistics

20102011201220132014201520162017
Donors  (Deceased)5893788663817790
Living Donors2327323840335048
Transplants
Kidney121192163185152153172177
Liver3861505544615858
Heart36101118161515
Lung48143231363535
Pancreas881116005
Total Transplants174275238294251266280290

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