Organ donor facts
• The oldest recipient of an organ donation in the UK was 85
• 90% of people support organ donation
• UK’s first live donor kidney transplant carried out at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1960
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Hide Ad• Heart needs to be transplanted within five hours of removal from a donor
• 16 million people are on the organ donor register
• 42% of people in the Lothians are on the organ donor register
• 8000 people on UK waiting list for an organ transplant
• 3500 organ transplants take place every year in the UK
• 122 heart transplants carried out last year in Britain