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Plea for more Asian organ donors

(BBC 03/11/2009)

People from an Asian background have been urged to register as organ donors because of a severe shortage of organs for Asian patients in the UK. About one in six people on the organ transplant waiting list is Asian but last year just 12 out of more than 500 organ donors in the UK were Asian. As a result, Asians have to wait twice as long as white patients for an organ.