‘Demand high’: 500 patients awaiting kidney donors

MANILA, Philippines — The Human Organ Preservation Effort of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (HOPE-NKTI) is encouraging the public to become organ donors for the more than 500 individuals in the country currently in need of a transplant. According to Dr. Anthony Russel Villanueva, head of HOPE-NKTI, the average number of deceased organ donors