Organ Waiting List numbers January 2002

SOURCE: Transplant figures cross checked using figures provided by individual transplant units and the Australia and New Zealand Organ Donation Registry data.

Australian Waiting List by State at January 1 2002

	QLD	NSW/ACT	VIC/TAS	SA/NT	WA	TOTAL
Kidney	118	816	410	125	126	1595
Liver	39	48	31	3	4	125
Heart	25	22	13	2	5	67
Lung	25	37	43	8	11	124
Pancreas	12	20	16	6	5	59
Cornea	0	N/A	108	0	25	-

NB: Data provided by the National Organ Matching Service (NOMS). Corneal waiting list provided by State Eye Banks.

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Organ Donors in January - December 2001

	QLD	NSW/ACT	VIC/TAS	SA/NT	WA	TOTAL
Organ Donors	48	46/7	41/3	25/2	13	185
DPMP *	13.2	7.0/22.3	8.5/6.4	16.6/10.2	6.8	9.5
Tissue Donors+	349	370	264	76	64	1123

* DPMP - donors per million population

+ Tissue donors includes corneas, bone, heart valves (this figure does not include tissue donoted from organ donors)

Patients Transplanted January - December 2001

	QLD	NSW/ACT	VIC/TAS	SA/NT	WA	TOTAL
Kidney	121	139	152	69	45	526
- Cadaveric	84	89	87	41	27	328
- Live (%)**	37(31%)	50(36%)	65(43%)	28(41%)	18(40%)	198(38%)
Liver	38	39	32	4	7	120
Heart	8	17	35	-	7	67
Heart/Lung	0	0	1	-	-	1
Lung	1 1 double 0 single	33 28 double 5 single	39 18 double 21 single	-	-	73 47 double 26 single
Pancreas and Kidney #	0	11	10	-	-	21
Cornea	318	N/A	277	104	113

Includes transplants performed in Australia with organs received from New Zealand. (2 livers and 2 double lungs received from New Zealand. Australia sent 9 livers to New Zealand)

** represents percentage of live donor kidney transplants compared to total kidney transplants performed
# Kidneys included in cadaveric kidney numbers
N/A - not available

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