'Organ donors can save eight lives': Donor shortage leading to lengthy waiting lists

Around 500 people are currently on waiting lists. File picture: Conor McCabe Photography

A shortage of organ donors has resulted in high numbers of patients left on lengthy waiting lists.

A renewed call to consider organ donation has been made by Dr Catherine Motherway, a former head of the Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital Limerick, as around 500 people are currently on waiting lists. Only 282 transplants were completed last year.