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The gift of life

	THOUSANDS OF		Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool,
	PEOPLE NEED A		where organs and skin tissues were
	TRANSPLANT TO		removed from dead children without
	SAVE OR IMPROVE		permission for research purposes, have
	THEIR LIVES. WOULD		certainly done little to reassure the
	YOU BACK A SYSTEM		public. The case of former footballer
	THAT AUTOMATICALLY ALLOWS YOUR		George Best’s excessive drinking, after
	ORGANS TO BE DONATED AFTER YOUR		he had his liver transplant, certainly has
	DEATH?		not helped people to decide to donate
1	The idea of donating organs is		either!
	probably something most people don’t	5	Perhaps it’s a question of showing
	like to give much thought. Who wants to		people what donation can mean. One
	think about what will happen to their		person’s death can save and improve
	body when they’re gone? However, the		the lives of more than ten other people.
	shortage of organs has reached critical		A heart transplant can save one life, and
	levels.		lung transplants save two more. The
2	The shortage has forced some people		liver can be split, saving two more lives.
	to go abroad to buy organs on the black		Success rates are excellent: nine out of
	market. Last December police		ten patients will lead healthy lives for
	uncovered an organ trafficking gang,		years.
	which involved buying organs from poor	6	Deborah Duval, 44, received a new
	people in Brazil for $10,000 and selling		kidney and pancreas in 1994. She met
	them for transplant in South Africa, for		the family of her donor, a 34-year-old
	around $120,000. Kidneys from live		man, who saved the lives of six people
	donors are also traded illegally. The		after his death. Her new kidney failed
	reason for the crisis is simple: not		four years later, but she’s now in good
	enough people have registered to		health after a second transplant. ‘A
	donate, according to Mr Chris Rudge,		phone call once again brought the
	kidney transplant surgeon at The Royal		dream of a life free from dialysis,’
	London Hospital. ‘There’s always been a		remembers Deborah. ‘I owe my life to
	shortage, which is [id:48911] because		two families’ extraordinary generosity
	transplant surgery is so successful. We		and compassion.’
	know that 90 per cent of people would	7	At present, even if you have chosen to
	be willing to donate. They just don’t join		donate your organs, your relatives can
	the NHS Organ Donor Register.’		overrule you after your death. A new law
3	Another stumbling block is that when		is going through Parliament to change
	grieving relatives are approached about		this, so that the wishes of the individual
	the prospect of donating the organs of		are decisive. We should ask ourselves,
	their loved ones, they usually refuse.		would we want a transplant if we were
	‘I don’t know why relatives say no,’ says		critically ill? If the answer’s 'Yes' then
	Mr Rudge, ‘I’m worried that there might		surely we must be willing to do the same
	be a lack of trust between patients and		for others.
	doctors.’		TOP SANTÉ
4	Scandals like the one involving Alder