many folk die each year whilst waiting for an organ transplant
in part, this is because too few people register to donate their organs after death and, of those who do, relatives are sometimes unaware of the deceased person’s wishes
a recent advertising campaign in Venezuela seeks to address these two issues
I hope the campaign achieves its objective and more organs become available for transplant but one problem is still to be tackled – even when the deceased person has
signed up to make their organs available for transplant after their death and relatives are aware of this wish, often the next of kin will refuse to allow the donation to proceed (sometimes because to do so conflicts with their own deeply held religious views)
time then, to move away from a system in which no organs are available for transplant after death unless an individual elects to make them so to one in which all suitable organs of the deceased are available for transplant unless the deceased has publically denied permission for their organs to be re-used in this way ?
