That is a missed opportunity to save thousands of lives
phone rings at LiveOnNY, death turns to opportunity. The organisation fields calls from 100 or so hospitals in and around New York City about every dead or dying person on a ventilator: stroke patients, gunshot victims, car-crash fatalities. Their organs might save sick people’s lives. But most are not registered donors, so staff at LiveOnNY must persuade their families to donate, then rush the organs to transplant centres.
Indeed, the system could work better: last year more than 36,000 organs from deceased donors were transplanted, though the pool of unrecovered, potentially usable organs is estimated to be at least double that. Tapping that supply would help meet a vast demand: 103,000 people are waiting for an organ. Last year about a tenth died while waiting or were delisted for being too sick.
At last, reform is on the way: laggards will be decertified in 2026 and taken over by high-performers that bid for them. The group responsible for monitoring thes is also due for a shake-up. In July Congress passed a law to open bidding for parts of that job, which has been held exclusively for decades by the United Network for Organ Sharing .Yet unrecovered organs are not the only reason America could do more transplants.
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