Most organ donors are accident victims

Star: HALF of all organ donors are accident victims and only 10% of those who pledged their organs got to fulfil their wish of donating their organs, Sin Chew Daily reported.
This is based on records from the National Organ Transplant Registry.
The daily quoted Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek as saying that organ donors were aged between 37 days and 79 years old.
Some 60% of those who pledged to donate their organs were between 21 and 40 years old, the daily reported.
Dr Chua told the daily that 1,200 kidneys, 700 corneas, 450 hearts and 200 livers were needed a year to give patients a new lease of life.
He was quoted as saying that renal failure patients had only two choices – to have a kidney transplant or be hooked to dialysis machines for life.
Due to the shortage of kidney donors, 95% of renal failure patients in the country relied on dialysis machines, the daily reported.