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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | April 25, 2016 02:35 PM |
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| From: | Representative Mark Rozzi |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Designating April 2016 As National Donate Life Month |
| This week, I plan to introduce a resolution designating April 2016 as National Donate Life Month. One organ donor can save and heal the lives of up to eight people through organ donation and countless others through tissue donation. Some facts... • It is estimated that nearly 30,000 patients began new lives in 2015 thanks to organ transplants (from 8,500 deceased and 6,000 living donors). • 122,000 men, women and children await lifesaving organ transplants. More than 1,000 of them are 10 years old or younger. • About 58% of patients awaiting lifesaving transplants are minorities. • Another person is added to the nation’s organ transplant waiting list every 10 minutes. • Sadly, 8,000 people die each year - 22 people each day - because the organs they need are not donated in time. • The average waiting time for a kidney from a deceased donor is 3 to 5 years. A kidney from a living donor offers patients an alternative to years of dialysis and time on the national transplant waiting list*. • 13% of patients waiting are in need of a liver. Living donation of part of the liver is an option for these patients; the remaining portion will regenerate and regain full function. Partial lung, intestine and pancreas living donation are possible as well. • More than 33% of all deceased donors are age 50 or older; more than 5% are age 65 or older. • Each year, there are approximately 30,000 tissue donors and more than 1 million tissue transplants; the surgical need for donated tissue is steadily rising. • A single tissue donor can help more than 50 people. • 48,000 patients have their sight restored through corneal transplants each year. • More than 121 million people, approximately 51% of the U.S. adult population, are registered organ, eye and tissue donors. • To register your decision to save and heal lives, visit www.DonateLife.net. Your co-sponsorship is most appreciated...and please consider signing onto DonateLife. |
Introduced as HR862