Donation of organs 'should be automatic' - Telegraph
Extract:
"People should automatically have their organs removed for transplant after they die unless they opted out while alive, Britain's most senior doctor is expected to say tomorrow in his annual report.
Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, is expected to call for a change in the law amid fears that people are dying needlessly due to a shortage of donors.
Latest figures show that more than 7,300 Britons are on the waiting list for a life-saving transplant, a rise of about 30 per cent in the past 10 years.
Britain operates a system where organs can be removed only from people who have joined the donor register or carried a donor card.
Under a new system of presumed consent, which is supported by the British Medical Association, everyone would be treated as an organ donor unless they explicitly opted-out of the scheme while alive."
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Proposal that law should be changed with regard to organ donation
Posted by Willow at 3:01 pm
Labels: adverse side-effects, Chief Medical Officer, Obesity, organ donors, organ failure, Prescribed medications, Salt Sensitivity, Sir Liam Donaldson, sodium retention, transplants
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