Photo: Precious: Record number of organs donated. Picture: Dione Davidson/The West Australian
WA has achieved its best year in organ donation and transplants, with a record number of kidney and liver transplants and a 50 per cent increase in the number of deceased donors last year.
Figures obtained by The Weekend West show 47 West Australians were deceased organ donors last year compared with 32 in 2012, and a record 166 organs were transplanted from WA donors - 60 per cent more than in the previous year.
The organs became part of a national pool that allowed 101 kidney transplants and 32 liver transplants to be carried out in WA.
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