Black patients reveal trauma of organ donor shortage
Briefly

A woman has described the trauma of watching family members wait more than a decade for an organ transplant before she herself was diagnosed with kidney failure, as NHS figures show Black and Asian people wait six months longer for a donor.Six in ten (62 per cent) of those on a waiting list for an organ transplant in London were of Black or Asian heritage in March 2022, according to data released by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) on Thursday.
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