U.K. to Ban Private Organ Transplants

Published On: August 1st, 2009

Liver Transplantable organs are a scarce commodity, and people die every day waiting for them. So it’s no wonder that they’re a perpetual source of tension, as we were reminded yet again today by some news from the other side of the Atlantic.

The U.K. is set to ban private transplants from dead donors, after media reports that private patients from overseas traveled to the U.K. to receive organs, the BBC reports. The livers of at least 50 British donors from the National Health Service were transplanted into foreign patients over a two-year period, according to the Times of London.

The move is intended “to make more organs available for U.K. residents,” the former official who led a recent review told the Times. “While I found no evidence of wrongdoing in the way organs are allocated to patients, there is a perception that private payments may unfairly influence access to transplant, so they must be banned.”

The story has echoes of the questions UCLA Medical Center faced over giving liver transplants to Japanese patients with alleged gang ties. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services looked into that case and said UCLA didn’t do anything wrong.

Drawing of Liver from Gray’s Anatomy

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