Italy's National Transplants
Centre said Tuesday that 2016 was a record year for organ
donations and transplants in the country. It said there were
1,596 donors last year and the number of patients to receive
transplants increased by 400 to 3,736. It said that 273 of the
transplants were of the kidney from people who were still alive
and 20 others were liver transplants from living donors.
Furthermore, the waiting lists for kidney and lung transplants
dropped last year, the centre said. The number of organ
donations rose above 1,300 for the first time since 1992, the
centre said.
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