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Posted on 04/12/2008 10:39:56 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
With her mother desperately in need of a transplant, Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys.
So when the 21-year-old died after an asthma attack, it seemed that the tragedy would at least give Rachel Leake a chance of a healthy new life. But because Laura had not begun the formal process of becoming a "living donor," the authorities refused to let her mother receive her organs. Instead they went to strangers at the top of the waiting list.
Rachel Leake says her daughter Laura 'would be devastated that she was not able to help me'"All I wanted to do was carry out her wishes," said 39-year-old Mrs Leake. "She would have been so upset that she was not able to help her mum. Even the transplant coordinator was crying her eyes out. She really tried to get her bosses to change their minds but they would not budge."
Although the Human Tissue Authority has the power to allow "directed" donor requests of this kind, a blanket ban is in force while an ethical review of such transplants is carried out. Despite an appeal to health ministers by the family's MP, Gerry Sutcliffe, Laura's kidneys went to a man in Sheffield and a man in London, while her liver was given to a 15-year-old girl.
Mrs Leake urgently needs another kidney and as a diabetic she could also have benefited from receiving her daughter's pancreas. She had a kidney transplant five years ago, but the donated organ failed last year and she needs dialysis in hospital three times a week to stay alive.
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No diabetes doesn’t make it harder to heal if it is controlled. By your thinking, 99% of the transplants that are done today wouldn’t be done at all.
Is there a money trail or is it merely bureaucratic buttholiness?
The socialists/democrats/liberals are not just completely incompetent tin-pot totalitarians, they are sadistically evil passive-aggressive control freaks.
Touche`! I was wondering who was more important on the transplant list who was also a match to the kidney? I hear that if you are important in countries with socialized medicine that there really are two tiers. One for the important and another for everyone else. Frightening!
Access in Canada to timely medical care depends on your political connections.
I may need one as well
I wasn’t joking. I’ll give you one. Nate thinks he would. I know I would.
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