Written answers
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Department of Health
Organ Donation Data
Billy 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]
Simon 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
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
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Donors (Deceased) | 58 | 93 | 78 | 86 | 63 | 81 | 77 | 90 |
Living Donors | 23 | 27 | 32 | 38 | 40 | 33 | 50 | 48 |
Transplants | ||||||||
Kidney | 121 | 192 | 163 | 185 | 152 | 153 | 172 | 177 |
Liver | 38 | 61 | 50 | 55 | 44 | 61 | 58 | 58 |
Heart | 3 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 15 |
Lung | 4 | 8 | 14 | 32 | 31 | 36 | 35 | 35 |
Pancreas | 8 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Total Transplants | 174 | 275 | 238 | 294 | 251 | 266 | 280 | 290 |
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