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If you were aware of this, would you still be an organ donor ?

Have your say: National Health Service (NHS) The bulk of the operations, which all involved liver transplants, took place at King's College Hospital and the Royal Free in London. Of the patients, 40 were Greeks or Cypriots, who are entitled as EU citizens to NHS services, including transplants. The remainder included patients from non-EU countries such as China, Libya and the United Arab Emirates, seven of whom were classed as deserving equal access to services. The Department of Health said that these patients, although not from the EU, must have met criteria allowing them NHS treatment. Three people from non-EU countries were treated as lower-priority patients. Although implanting organs from British donors in foreign patients is legal, some hospitals prioritise UK patients because of the shortage of organs. There are currently more people needing transplants in the UK than there are donor organs available, with 325 people waiting for a new liver. Dr Mervyn Davies, a consultant hepatologist at St James's University hospital in Leeds, told The Sunday Times: "There is a shortage of donors and we cannot cater for the whole of the EU. It is tragic for these patients but the system that we have cannot cope with the UK demand as it is." A spokesman for King's confirmed that the hospital carries out liver transplants on a "small number of patients" referred to them by EU countries, with the costs of the operations met through a block contract with the Department of Health. Some EU countries, including the Republic of Ireland, Greece and Cyprus, do not have large enough liver transplant programmes of their own to support patient need," he said. "This is why a higher proportion of non-UK EU patients treated at King's come from these countries than from others." He added that the Greek and Cypriot governments choose to pay for their nationals' treatment outside of the contract with the Department of Health, meaning they are effectively treated as private patients with payments made directly to the hospital.

Public Comments

no
It wouldn't bother me, a person is a person no matter what nationality they are.
people from all races deserve to live. My organs are not racist1
who cares who gets them? a human is a human and YOU are dead. but no one is getting my organs anyway i dont care who they are. no one. all organs are pretty fooked up anyway lol.
Yes, it's all about helping people after I die - ethnicity doesn't matter to me
I still choose to donate but i would not be very happy if my organs were 'sold' to private foreign patients. Another incident of the government making money any way they can. Disgusting!
The whole point of organ donating is to save someone life was your own is over. Should it matter who the person is??
your dead who cares everyone is human it don't matter about ethnicity just about saving someones life i would be so proud if some kid was about to die and one of my organs was used to save it's life
why not?? - as long as someone benefits from my rotting corpse who cares??
I am not racist so my organs are not either. If I were dead then I won't be needing them so I don't care who would get them. I feel good knowing that when I die it could help someone else to live a little longer. Shame on you for even asking a question like this.
I'm an organ donor (assuming they're any good when I've finished with them). I would like my organs to help save or improve the life of another human being. I couldn't care less whether the recipient is Greek, Turkish or even a member of the BNP. I trust that when you are at death's door and they find a donor organ to save your life, you'll turn it down in case it comes from Johnny Foreigner.
Yes I would. Although I do believe that our country should take care of it's own residents first (race isn't important however, I mean all our residents!), so long as my organs saved lives I would be happy.
it does strike me as quite underhand and nasty. seems theres no ethics left anywhere anymore
You cant take it with you so it not gonna bother me, i am on the organ donor list :)
First they have to find a tissue match, so you could be top of the list and still last in the queue if the wrong blood type dies. Look on the bright side if they ever get the results they want with cell stem research, you could be eating your own bacon or wearing a self grown woolly jumper. Who cares life is a lottery no matter how you look at it.
I take it that your choice of paper is either The Sun or The Mail. Good luck with that ;)
Yes Suzie, you know it would be interesting to know what is causing all the potentially fatal liver ailments in the first place. Has there been any stats on that that you know of. In the USA a lot is from drug use in the 70's even though the patients have been drug free for years, it catches up with them later in the prime of life, then there are those that go out and pick wild mushrooms eat them and end up with fatal liver failure.
I am a organ doner and it doesn't matter to me who gets whatever I've got to give as long as someone can benefit from it.
When I don't need my parts anymore, they are better used to save a life than to rot in the ground.
Yes I would still be an organ donor. Do not care who gets them. I will be finished using them.
I have "organ donor" on my Driver's License..I could not care less who gets whatever is usable. Hopefully, it will help others to live a few more years. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind living long enough to wear all my organs out :-) ... so long as I am not one of those who needs a transplant! I would not deal well with that. Happy New Year.
I don't care who gets my stuff.I am donating anyway.
My brother who lives in the USA, had a liver transplant, from a deceased organ donor. I am sure he did not care about ethnicity of the donor. He also had a kidney transplant from my living younger brother. I am just happy that he is still alive, thanks to the generosity of the donors family and can not even begin to thank by younger brother for what he gave of himself to keep by brother alive.
How do we decide who gets a transplant! We are all God's children.
If I'm dead and can donate anything to anyone, then the answer is YES! Don't really know if anyone would want my liver or kidneys, but there is plenty left to go around.
In my will I am donating all my organs. People have died waiting for an available organ and to me that is so unnecessary when each of us could do this. It does not matter to me who gets what, I just want to help. Poppy
Yes, I would.
No - I am not an organ donor! CJ
When I first read the book & saw the movie 'Coma', I didn't want to be an organ donor. I am now. It's on my driver's license so if I'm ever any more brain-dead than I am now, they can have whatever parts still work.
Hello, Whoever found and can take the transplanted liver is ok by me otherwise it could be wasted. Plus if it is no cost to our tax payers, also maybe it spreads a hand of friendship around the world. Technology is meant to be shared for the good of all mankind/womankind/whoever.
I appreciate your argument sweetheart,and must remain neutral. Having assessed my physical condition, (home test kit) and realising honestly the malfunction of my mental capacity,i have calculated a reasonable compromise. All of my offal will be fed to homeless and needy canines.