Facebook connects patients with organ donors

May 1, 2012 | Source: ABC TV
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(Credit: ABC TV)

To help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants, Facebook users in the United States and U.K. are now able, starting today, to add that they’re organ donors to their Timelines, and if they’re not organ donors, they can find links to official organ donation registries and instantly enroll.

More than 112,000 Americans are awaiting organs, and 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit alliance that is partnering with Facebook.