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​Desert Storm Veteran and Maryland Resident Daronta Briggs received a kidney transplant in October 2012. He was one of 28 people to receive a kidney transplant at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda and 16,487 transplants in America in 2012  Statistics have revealed that minorities comprise about 60 percent of those currently on the United States organ transplant list, yet, in 2019, only 32 percent or of donors were from those communities. Health officials note that, while donors and recipients…]]>