Galway Bay fm newsroom - Three people who died at UHG this year donated their organs to transplant patients.
Minister for Health Simon Harris has today announced a record number of organ donor and transplantations for 2017.
This is the first year in which the milestone of 300 organ transplants has been reached.
A total of 98 families donated the organs of their deceased loved ones, while there were 51 living kidney donors.
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190 kidney transplants took place during 2017 at Beaumont Hospital, 61 liver transplants and 5 pancreas transplants were carried out at St Vincent's Hospital and 36 lung transplants & 16 heart transplants were done at the Mater Hospital.
