TRANSPLANTATION

when you are alive or after you

died.

There is a limit of age to

donate an organ
Liver

(maximum age is 55
years.)
Kidney (maximum age is 50
years.)
Lung (maximum age is between
50 and 55 years.)
Heart (maximum age is 55
years.)

THE PROBLEM
A. Nearly

2,000 people are waiting for

an organ transplant
B. Every week three patients die
waiting for an organ transplant

You can see this statistic.

T HE NEED: ORGAN DONORS AND PATIENT S WAIT ING
1988 through 2000
90000
80000
70000
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

Organ Donors

1998

1999

2000

Patients Waiting

Some Donation Controversies

Who

should be transplanted?

Smokers?

Alcoholics?

The

very young or old?

The

rich or the poor?

Those

in prison?