- There are currentyly 2,000 people in Missouri and 1,000 Kansas awaiting a life-saving transplant.
- Nationwide, more than 83,000 men, women and children currently await life saving/enhancing transplants.
- Every 13 minutes another name is added to the national waiting list. That's 103 people in one 24 hour period (37,595 every year).
- An average of 17 people per day (or 6,205 per year) die due to a lack of available organs for transplant.
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