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The state authority has created a centralised waiting list system to ensure proper allocation of donor organs. [6] The state has also created green corridors, routes that are cleared out for an ambulance carrying harvested organs to ensure their delivery at the destination in the shortest time possible.
The hospital has one of the highest survival rates – and one of the shortest waiting lists – in the country for heart, kidney, liver and pancreas transplant. In 2021, The University of Kansas Health System organ transplant team reached an impressive benchmark of 5,000 organs transplanted. [17]
Wait periods for organ transplants in China are significantly shorter than elsewhere in the world. According to a 2006 post on the China International Transplantation Assistance Center website, "it may take only one month to receive a liver transplantation, the maximum waiting time being two months.
From 2018-2021, among Indigenous people, just nine patients were accepted for a transplant for every 100 who died from liver disease "The unevenness in access and outcomes is a problem for all of ...
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In 2009, when Jobs received his liver transplant, the average wait time for liver transplantation in the United States for a patient with a MELD score of 38 (a metric of severity of liver disease) was about 1 year. In some regions, the wait time was as short as 4 months, while in others, it was more than 3 years. [83]
There is a global need or demand for healthy body parts for transplantation, which exceeds the numbers available. As of January 2020, there are more than 100,000 candidates waiting for organ transplant in the United States. [3] The median wait time for heart and liver transplants in the U.S. between 2003 and 2014, was approximately 148 days.
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