The White House recently held an organ donor awareness conference called the Organ Summit. The United Network for Organ Sharing reports that there are 131,528 people waiting on the organ transplant list. Surveys show that 95% of Americans support organ transplantation but only 50% of Americans have registered as a transplant donor. The first action item is to increase the number of Americans who have registered as an organ donor. The United Network for organ sharing is working to increase the efficiency of organ procurement and the Transplant Network to make more organs available.

Source: Huffington Post July 05, 2016 18:56 UTC