Nearly half of Kentucky’s population are registered as an organ donor. And those people are saving lives. That’s according to the Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates. Last year, 239 Kentuckians donated organs to those in need. The national waiting list for an organ transplant is over 100 thousand, around one thousand of those on the list are in the commonwealth.
Crysta McGee is the spokesperson for the Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates. She said the number of Kentuckians is probably even higher.
