UK: OUTRAGE OVER KIDNEY SWAP FOR PLO ENVOY

[okarol]

UK: OUTRAGE OVER KIDNEY SWAP FOR PLO ENVOY
By Victoria Fletcher

AN NHS hospital has sparked outrage for performing an organ transplant on the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s ambassador to Zimbabwe.
Despite a dearth of organs for NHS patients, meaning thousands are on the transplant waiting list, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in London has given a kidney to a high-profile member of the Middle Eastern political and paramilitary organisation.
The news will cause anger among the 7,000 patients currently waiting for a kidney in the UK because of a shortage of organs.
And there are fears it will damage confidence in the transplant scheme, which is trying to encourage more people to sign up as donors.
Stephen O’Brien, shadow health minister, said: “Patients who have waited for years for an organ will be extremely worried to hear that so many are going to patients abroad.”
More than 700 transplants, mostly liver swaps, have been carried out on non-UK patients, 631 of which received organs from dead donors. Of those, 314 patients were from outside the EU.
Many have paid the NHS hospitals that carry out the operation despite the fact the hospital will have received the organs for free.
The revelations caused such anger that the Department of Health ordered an immediate review of the system and has pledged to ban private transplants from dead donors.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the PLO ambassador to Zimbabwe received a kidney from a living donor in 1998.
The trust has refused to say whether the operation was carried out privately or on the NHS and would not say if the donor was British.
Figures obtained by the Conservatives show that British organs are being given to patients from all round the world.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/139317/Outrage-over-kidney-swap-for-PLO-envoy

[galvo]

Bastards!!!

[kristina]

It  is odd though, that this article is published now?

Many NHS/GP’s/doctors/specialist do not appear as if they respect
NHS-patients and they use them as guinea-pigs without consideration.

I have been trying very hard to find a rheumatologist/nephrologist who can
medically stop my Lupus/SLE-flare-up destroying my kidneys (kidney-function ~10%).

Some of the specialists I have contacted (in other countries) informed me, that
they were assured by NHS-authorities that I am being medically cared for under the NHS.

It is not true! I have not  seen a NHS-GP for almost 6 years
& I am under no NHS-specialist/rheumatologist/nephrologist.

In fact, I have not been informed by any NHS-doctor about dialysis, transplant etc.

Furthermore, a medical letter of 11th April 2005 states, no NHS-specialist with medical expertise/experience
can be found in the UK to treat my Lupus/SLE/MCTD. In other words, the letter states clearly that
I have no medical treatment because there is no medical expertise under the NHS to treat my Lupus/SLE/MCTD.

Why are specialists in other countries, whom I have contacted and who are willing to help me medically,
told by NHS-authorities, that I am medically cared for under the NHS, when the truth is,
that I have no NHS-medical care and no NHS-GP/doctor/nephrologist to go to?