IOPO®: Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, Inc.

The Need

The profound need for organ and tissue donation. Desperate people are waiting. You have the power to save them!

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The Good News!

Last year, more than 25,000 lives in the United States were saved through organ transplants!

The Bad News

There is a Profound, Critical, Growing Need for Organs

  • More than 100,000 people in the US are currently waiting for life-saving organ transplants
  • Another man, woman, or child is added to the transplant waiting list every 11 minutes
  • Sadly, due to the critical shortage of organs, over 6,000 people will die this year waiting for an organ.

In Indiana, over 1,000 people are on the transplant list, waiting, hoping for an opportunity to continue to live.

Click here to register your decision to be an organ, tissue, and eye donor.

Here are the numbers:

Patients awaiting transplants in Indiana and the U.S.

Organ U.S. Indiana
Heart 3,142 40
Heart/Lung 79 0
Lung 1,814 60
Liver 16,072 83
Kidney 85,292 1,130
Kidney/Pancreas 2,199 53
Pancreas 1,450 24
Intestine 245 10
Total Patients* 107,776 1,311

* totals may be less than the sums due to patients included
in multiple categories.

Revised 05/31/2010

 

Last Year in Indiana #
Organ Donors 138
Organs Recovered 538
Organs Transplanted 442
Tissue Donors 642

Revised 03/13/2009

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