Kay s family says their final goodbyes. She is taken to the OR and prepared for the organ recovery. Transplant teams return to their centers with organs for transplant. Then a team from Galveston arrived to harvest tissue, muscles, and long bones. Tissues are usually transplanted long after the fact, unlike the organs that are needed right away.
People die each day while on a waiting list for a transplant.
16 Minutes before another name is added to the transplant waiting list. 60,000 Approximate number of people currently waiting for life-saving organ transplants. Many are less than 10 years old, and about 3,000 are Texans. 30 Percent of potential donors who actually have their organs donated. The nation currently averages about 5,000 organ donors per year.