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Organ Transplants: Black People Wait Up To Six Months Longer
//The best match comes from someone of the same ethnicity - but only 2% of donors in 2021/22 were black, while black people are 4% of the population.
Black families are also less likely to agree to organ donation than white families, the figures show.
The NHS says there's an "urgent need" for more people from ethnic minorities to donate. //
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People in these groups are obviously willing to receive organs but how can they be encouraged to donate?
Black families are also less likely to agree to organ donation than white families, the figures show.
The NHS says there's an "urgent need" for more people from ethnic minorities to donate. //
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People in these groups are obviously willing to receive organs but how can they be encouraged to donate?
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I seem to recall that organ transplanting was pioneered in South Africa to Worldwide acclaim. Has the programme developed further and is South Africa now the best place in the World to have such procedures carried out, or is the availability of replacement organs and the facility to make use of them somewhat diminished If so, why so, and would the black people on our waiting lists be better served by having their treatment there?
The real wickedness is from Japan - their culture pretty much precludes donation of organs (either before or after death), so they just wave money at impoverished, live donors in third world countries.
This encourages "organ brokers" who cream off the bulk of the money, whilst leaving the actual donors still impoverished, but now minus an organ ...
This encourages "organ brokers" who cream off the bulk of the money, whilst leaving the actual donors still impoverished, but now minus an organ ...
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