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BBC NEWS | England | Bradford | Mother denied daughter's organs
Its an amazingly bad story for anyone who has either opted to donate or is waiting for a transplant.
The Human Tissue Authority - a nice little quango for the Health ministers friends - have done an amazing amount of harm to the whole area by doggedly sticking to the rules in the face of common sense. They compounded the harm by their defence of strict interpretation of the rules in all later interviews - you cant watch these interviews without thinking what a bunch of jobsworths!
If donation is a voluntary act then surely the donor and their family should have some say - I'm not saying they should be able to specify 'no n***ers' but this woman gave 3 organs of which only one would be needed to save her mothers life (who was also pretty likely to be a good tissue match) and co-incidentally give the grandchild a carer with some kind of life expectancy!!!
People say its an exceptional case but sometimes it takes something like this to highlight problems.
The Government was even beginning to look at new laws to make the presumption that everyone wants to donate unless they state otherwise but I'd say this case has totally destroyed that idea.
The HTA should be dissolved.
Its an amazingly bad story for anyone who has either opted to donate or is waiting for a transplant.
The Human Tissue Authority - a nice little quango for the Health ministers friends - have done an amazing amount of harm to the whole area by doggedly sticking to the rules in the face of common sense. They compounded the harm by their defence of strict interpretation of the rules in all later interviews - you cant watch these interviews without thinking what a bunch of jobsworths!
If donation is a voluntary act then surely the donor and their family should have some say - I'm not saying they should be able to specify 'no n***ers' but this woman gave 3 organs of which only one would be needed to save her mothers life (who was also pretty likely to be a good tissue match) and co-incidentally give the grandchild a carer with some kind of life expectancy!!!
People say its an exceptional case but sometimes it takes something like this to highlight problems.
The Government was even beginning to look at new laws to make the presumption that everyone wants to donate unless they state otherwise but I'd say this case has totally destroyed that idea.
The HTA should be dissolved.