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Author Topic: Organ Donor Card T&Cs.  (Read 1836 times)

dave.m

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Organ Donor Card T&Cs.
« on: April 13, 2008, 07:28:42 PM »
So a young lady who was dying and had signed a donor card could not stipulate that her mother (who needs a kidney transplant) should receive her kidney because the Human Tissue Authority had first claim on all her organs and first say on who should receive them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7344205.stm

Being a martyr in death could just result in your own family not receiving a transplant that you would, obviously, want them to have.
Think of all the consequences before signing up to the Donor Card because there is a lot in the small print that you do not get to read.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7345195.stm

This stupid action by the HTA could quite easily result in thousands of potential donors not signing up. What a cockup!

dave
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Accordion

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Re: Organ Donor Card T&Cs.
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2008, 10:40:39 PM »
Does open up a can worms, doesn't it?
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oldfogy

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Re: Organ Donor Card T&Cs.
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2008, 10:49:02 PM »
If I am correct, are they not still supposed to get consent from the next of kin before the organs are transfered?

If that had been me, I would of rejected the consent on the grounds that they were already needed by a family member.

(But then does that also makes me selfish)  :-\

As has been said, there is a lot of information in the small print people either do not know or do not see.
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