Transplant drug user's organs for patients in the UK

it is well known that long-term drug users or drug users have poorerhealthand are more susceptible todiseasesBut a British survey has found that in the past five years, hundreds of substandard organ donors taken from addicts have been transplanted into patients, buryinghealth risksDonors do not meetstandards
a survey of domestic organ transplants under the Freedom of Information Act by nhs blood and transplant ingsectors in the NHS showed that between April 2002 and March 2007, 3 per cent of transplanted organ donors (450 organs) came from donors with a history of drug abuse or drug use, some of whom even died of drug overdoses or drugsThe survey found that drug addicts and drug addicts are more likely to be infected with hepatitis, AIDS and other infectious diseasesEven if the organs of an addict or drug-addicted donor are carefully examined before the transplant, it is still possible to transmit undetected hiddendisease
to the organ recipientA spokesman for the Uker organ transplant department,the Ukrein Department of Organ Transplantation, cited a liver transplant as an example: "The organ donor for this transplant was from a drug-abuse donor who had suffered a cardiac arrestbefore the operation But the situation was so urgent that organ donors were lacking and doctors had no choice but to take risks "
in the face of sudden situations and the lack of organ donors, doctors and patients receiving organ transplants have little choice "Ten to 15 years ago, there were more organ donors than there are now, we had plenty of donor reserves and we were much more cautious about using them than we are now," Nadey Hakim, director of the Organ Transplant Department at Hammersmith Hospital in west London, told the Daily Telegraph on Monday As these organ donors get older, transplanting their organs can cause many problems Subjectively, we also don't want to use the organs of drug addicts or drug addicts Tim Stetham, executive director of the British Kidney Foundation, said: "As long as the patient's life can be saved, we don't care if the organ donor is 100 per cent compliant with standards
investigation by the UK's organ transplant authority has sparked a new round of calls for changes to the relevant provisions of existing law Proponents are calling for a "presumptive consent" policy, in which all Britons are automatically registered on the organ donation register, which is tantamount to agreeing to organ donation if they do not object Zhou Yan (Xinhua News Agency special report)