Thursday, 28 Nov 2019 05:27 PM MYTLord Scott has been on a new lease of life ever since he received a kidney transplant from his brother last year. — Picture courtesy of Lord Scott
“From the very moment, my doctor told me that I had ‘missed the boat’ and had to be on long term haemodialysis, I felt like my whole world was just crumbling,” he said in a press release by the National Kidney Foundation .“When my friends were out living life, I was being hooked up to a machine.As the years passed, and due to a weakening body from the side effects of prolonged hours of dialysis treatment, Lord eventually lost his job.
“I gathered the courage to invite a few of my siblings for the all-important meeting to meet the transplant team at the Hospital Kuala Lumpur and finally one of my brothers agreed to be tested. The extremely long waiting list was also a deterrent as he believed one would have to wait at least 10 years before being considered for transplantation.
Malaysia’s current opt-in system requires citizens to register to be organ donors, while the opt-out system presupposes everyone is a registered organ donor unless the donor/guardian has requested to be delisted from the registry of donors. As of October 2019, while 1.3 per cent of the country’s population are registered as organ donors, the Health Ministry recently revealed that in as many as 80 per cent of cases handled, donors were faced with opposition from family members.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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