In 2008…

• There were 4330 people on the waiting list for an organ transplant.
• 215 people died while waiting for an organ transplant.
• 303 people withdrew from the waiting list. (People are withdrawn from the waiting list when they become too sick to receive a transplant, opt out of the surgery, or their health improves.)
• 2083 trasplants took place.  1541 of those transplants were made possible because of deceased donors.

** All Statistics are from the Canadian Institute for Health Information – who, inturn, gets their information directly from the provincial medical bodies that coordinate transplant.