Harrogate AdvertiserHarrogate double transplant recipient throws charity dinner for organ …Harrogate AdvertiserA fundraising stalwart from Harrogate has announced plans to throw a charity gala to raise money for organ donation, after receiving a life…
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Bulka: The organ donation system does not discriminate
Ottawa Citizen If Amnesty International wants to really be helpful, there is an easy way toward that goal: urge everyone to sign on for organ donation, such that, ideally, everyone in need will not have to wait. No one should have amnesty from making unwarranted … ‘I feel for families,’ says Inuk woman who questioned liver transplant policyCTV News Delilah Saunders holds news conference from hospital bedAPTN News |
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Minister praises Daily Mirror for ‘educating millions of Brits’ in successful campaign to change the law on organ …
Mirror.co.uk Labour MP Dan Jarvis, who has campaigned relentlessly to change the law in order to save lives, said: “The evidence base relates to the fact that hundreds of people die each year because we don’t have enough organ donors. “Can I thank the minister for … |
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This Morning viewers in tears as expectant mum donating sick …
Express.co.uk THIS MORNING viewers found it difficult to hold back their tears as they listened to Hayley and Scott Martin tell Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes that their unborn baby will not survive. Mum carrying terminally-ill baby ‘to be a donor‘BBC News Brave mum carrying her dying baby to full term so she can donate her organs breaks down on This MorningThe Sun ‘I don’t want to let her go yet’: Pregnant mother who has pledged to carry her dying baby to full term so that her …Daily Mail |
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This Dad’s Letter to the PM After Losing His Child Is a Cause We Should All Back
The Better India Ashwini, suffering the pain of a pelvic fracture and the probability of losing her only child, uttered the words ‘organ donation,’ without Umesh even telling her. When the couple approached the hospital, they were discouraged saying the rules on infant … |
The National |
Organ Donation
Maine Public Organ donation may seem like a somewhat mysterious process, yet can be a significant help to those in need of vital organs or tissue–and can save lives. We demystify the steps to organ and tissue donation. What happens after you check off the “organ … Popular opinion is changing over organ donation, says top surgeonThe National My patient died afraid, waiting for an organ: the law must change …The Times |
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Steve Gazzard’s ‘have your say’ plea on organ donor opt-out plans
Exmouth Journal Exmouth charity champion Steve Gazzard is urging people to take part in a consultation on whether people should have to opt-in to be an organ donor. Steve Gazzard made a promise to his daughter Sarah Wright before she died that he would fight to change … |
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Popular opinion is changing over organ donation, says top surgeon
The National A cultural shift is taking place in attitudes towards organ donation and transplants, a leading surgeon says. But it is still early days, and many patients still wait too long to be assessed as recipients of organ donation, while families are still … ‘Spring arrives’ for donation of organsecns Organ donation campaignKorea Times Would you give up your organs to save a life?Blackpool Gazette |
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Organ donation myths
WLS-TV Each day, 20 people die waiting for a life-saving organ. And while 95 percent of Americans support organ donation, only 54 percent of them actually sign up to be donors. So why aren’t more people willing to give their organs away? Some myths could be … Should Australia adopt an ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation?Starts at 60 My patient died afraid, waiting for an organ: the law must changeThe Times |
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Maha govt reconstitutes advisory committee under Human Organ Transplantation Act
Daily News & Analysis The Maharashtra government on Saturday reconstituted a 10-member advisory committee headed by the health secretary, under the Human Organ Transplantation Act, 1994. The committee will have a two-year term till December 2019. The committee comprises … |