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Organ donation - personal stories

  • Last modified date:
    8 February 2007

Read some personal stories about how organ donation can change lives.

Why I want to be an organ donor: Brian Belle-Fortune

"Black people are three times more likely to need a kidney transplant but very few of us are on the organ donor register. We should be over-represented as donors, not under-represented. It's important to make the effort to register now, don't put it off for later. I'd like to make a difference after I have died."

Transplant Recipient Riminder Dosanjh
Riminder's first kidney transplant worked perfectly for 14 years until it failed and she was left to face life without a kidney in her body at all. But now another donated organ has transformed her life for the second time.

Living Kidney Donors: The Cain Family
Loving wife Paulette Cain donated one of her kidneys to her husband David - and gave her whole family a new lease of life.

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UK Transplant

At UK Transplant we are doing everything with one focus - to save or improve the lives of thousands of people every year through organ transplantation.

Human Tissue Authority

HTA regulates the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue from the living and deceased.

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