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WTF Fact – Kidney’s Trashed

July 2, 2019 by WTF

The US has roughly 100,000 patients waiting for a kidney transplant and yet over 2,000 kidneys are discarded each year, 1/5th of them because a recipient couldn’t be found. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/health/transplant-experts-blame-allocation-system-for-discarding-kidneys.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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