About Us
Transplant Games Mission
Mission
The mission of the NKF U.S. Transplant Games is to demonstrate the success of transplantation, honor those who have given the gift of life, and call attention to the need for more organ donors.
Transplant Statistics
- Nearly 100,000 people are currently on the waiting list in the United States.
- One tissue donor can help improve the lives of more than 50 people.
- An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
- Every 12 minutes another person is added to the national transplant waiting list.
- More than two million Americans die each year, but only 15,000 die under circumstances that make them medically eligible to donate organs.
- Of the estimated 15,000 medically eligible to donate organs, only about 6,000 patients actually become donors.
- About 750,000 tissue transplants are performed each year in the United States.
