An overview of the process and status of organ donation and transplantation in Louisiana. Karen Stassi reports that the percentage of Louisiana adults that are registered as organ donors, as well as the per capita number of actual donors, far outstrips rates in most of the country and indeed the world. Louisiana’s rate of approximately 35 deceased donors per million population is similar to Spain, which boasts the highest rate of any country in the world. At the same time, in Louisiana about 1,700 people are waiting for organ transplants, 90 percent of them for kidneys.
