In the United States, the
donation rate has increased to 32.8 pmp donors with a total of 10,722 deceased donors.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): Roughly 5 lakh people die annually in India due to lack of an organ donor but with less than one per million people opting to donate, the organ
donation rate in the country is one of the lowest in the world, according to estimates.
Shortage of blood for safe transfusion has been approximately estimated at 40% for a year, in Pakistan, with the blood
donation rate being less than one per cent.
Tsai said the national blood
donation rate is 7.44 percent, and the average number of blood donations per person per year is 1.76.
It indicates a higher (60%)
donation rate with presumed consent in Wales than the opt-in model in England (50%).
In particular, Spain, which has the highest organ
donation rate, considers all citizens donors unless they opt out.
The second-lowest
donation rate was for those who got a letter requiring one person in 10 to activate matching funds, at 2 percent, followed by a 2.34 percent rate for the people promised an unconditional dollar-for-dollar match.
The reasons for SA's low deceased
donation rate are multiple.
While median blood
donation rate in high-income countries is 33.1 donations per 1,000 people, it is just 11.7 donations per 1,000 people in middle-income countries, and a measly 4.6 donations per 1,000 people in low-income countries.
The whole blood
donation rate is an indicator for the general availability of blood in a country.
The system being rolled out Wales has already been running for decades in Israel, Singapore and other European countries including Spain, which has the highest organ
donation rate in the world.
The study, published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, found that Glasgow has the lowest
donation rate while Cardiff has the highest.