On Sunday, the association marks its tenth anniversary.
Croatia is first in the world in the number of liver and kidney transplants, and second in heart transplants.
Last year 361 organs were transplanted in Croatia, including 197 kidneys, 15 livers, 34 hearts and five pancreases.
Thanks to high public awareness of the need for organ donations, waiting lists decreased 37 percent over the past five years. Croatian patients wait 15 days on average for a liver, less than a year for a kidney and 70 days on average for a heart.
"In case of an urgent list, patients get an organ within 48 hours. All this wouldn't be possible if we didn't have a synergy between professionals, the Association and the media, because we have a very high rate of realised donors - 33.5 per million inhabitants," said Mirela Pandzic, who had a heart transplant in 2003.
Every day 12 persons die in Europe because of a lack of an organ for transplantation. Croatian Health Minister Sinisa Varga said recently that Croatia practically had no waiting list, whereas in Europe more than 50,000 people waited for a transplant.
Nearly every organ is successfully transplanted in Croatia, except the lungs, for which Croatian patients go to Vienna. Kidneys, the pancreas, the liver, lungs, the heart and the small intestine are the most frequently transplanted organs.