AA
If you allow me to
suggest to you:
Please support the
present system:No to opt-out and to
keep organ donation by choice
Otherwise many Muslims
who die ,their organs will be removed without their
knowledge and consent :
As they were not aware
before of the new opt-out system
or were lazy
or with with poor English to go through the procedure/application to
fill for opt-out?
Besides many
Muslims/Muftis oppose the principle of organ donation.
WE APPEAL TO ALL MUSLIM
ORGANISATIONS/MCB /MOSQUES/DOCTORS AND MUSLIM
INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE IN WALES TO DO
JOINED MUSLIM RESPONSE:OPPOSING THE NEW
PROPOSED SYSTEM:opt-out, and keep the present systemas it
is ( by choice)
Thank you
WS
Brother: Dr A MAJID
KATME
Spokesman: Islamic
Medical Association/UK
T: 07944 240 622
PLEASE SEE THE ARTICLE
BELOW
- First Minister hails 'momentous' day as details of
proposed opt-out organ donation policy unveiled
- By Simon Gaskell,
WalesOnline
- Nov 8 2011
·
First Minister Carwyn
Jones and Health Minister Lesley Griffiths meet organ recipient Joan Picton
The Welsh Government
published its white paper on
an opt-out system for organ and tissue donation today with First Minister
Carwyn Jones labelling it a “momentous” day for Wales.
Under the proposals anyone
who does not want to donate organs posthumously would have to make a clear
indication it was not their wish to do so.
But in certain circumstances, families would be able to challenge whether a
relative’s organs can be donated, for example if it is extremely distressing or
strong evidence can be given it is against the person’s wishes.
The paper will now be subject to a three-month consultation period running
until the end of January next year.
Unveiling the white
paper, Mr Jones said: “Today is an important day for so many people and an
important day for Wales but in particular for all those people waiting for
organ transplants.
“We know one person dies every week because organs aren’t available.
“Today’s the day we say in Wales we want to be sure more and more people have a
chance of life – a life that otherwise would be far more difficult for them.”
Currently 300 people in Wales are waiting for an organ transplant, with one
person dying each week.
The proposed opt-out system will apply to all residents in Wales over the age
of 18 although it will only apply to those who have lived in Wales a certain
length of time, which is yet to be clarified.
Mr Jones said he hoped the Government would have a “human system” if it got the
chance to legislate.
“If you ask most people they are happy for organs to be donated but
comparatively few people take the step of saying: ‘Yes I will take the card or
register for organ donation’,” he said.
“We want to move to a system where people opt-out and we want it to be a human
system as well and make sure people can opt-out and there’s a procedure for
doing that.
“We know it works well in other countries and donation rates there are far, far
higher there than Wales and the rest of the UK.
“Today is a momentous day. I look forward to taking forward the process of
bringing organ donation bill in front of the Assembly.”
Health Minister Lesley Griffiths said: “The publication of this white paper is,
of course, only one stage in a journey and we hope the Welsh public will help
us to get this right before the closure
of the consultation on January 31, 2012.”
Among those backing the bill is Joan Picton, 68, from Barry, who was recovering
from a kidney operation on the transplant ward at the University Hospital
Wales, Cardiff, where the white paper was unveiled.
She said: “Waiting for an organ, it’s a funny feeling. I had a couple of
operations because my dialysis didn’t work.
“I didn’t think it would happen because there’s such a lot of people waiting.”
Joan, who suffered with a polycystic kidney, said it was a huge relief for her
and her family husband William, 68, and sons Simon, 43, and Robert, 35, when
she found out there was a chance of a donor.
And because her disease is hereditary and Robert also suffers she said she
hoped the opt-out system would be law in the event he would also need a transplant in later life.
“If the opponents chatted to people who have got diseases of any kind that you
could have a transplant for, I think if they went to the hospitals and saw how
they live and the pain some people have – I think they would probably change
their minds,” she said.
“I hope there’s a much quicker transplant process in the future. I think people
don’t realise the good it could do.
“They say: ‘I will do it tomorrow and look at it tomorrow and put things off.”
Wales is the first country in the UK to begin plans for the opt-out system
designed to increase the number of organ and tissue donors.
Conservative estimates say there would be around 15 more donors each year if
the proposed system was in place now – all donating two or three organs which
would provide 40 to 50 organs for donation.