The organ donation and transplant figures for 2016, which will be presented on Monday by the Portuguese Blood and Transplantation Institute (IPST), in Lisbon, point to a rise in the number of organs procured from donors who have died, which rose from 896 in 2015 to 936 last year.

Of these, 784 organs were transplanted, which is a usage rate of 84% (79% the previous year).

According to the National Transplant Coordination Office Segundo the figures show, “the highest ever figures for liver and lung transplants,” and record a “rise in kidney transplants to higher than figures in the last four years (2012-2016)”.

Most donors (327) are recorded as brain dead while live donors (living people who donate an organ, usually a kidney or part of a liver) totalled 65 last year.