Today 3 people like Gail will die waiting for an organ donor . . it's time to opt for life, Scotland

Kidney Transplant Blog | Caroline Wilson

Gail Fleming died at the age of 38 of liver failure, leaving two young children without a mother.

SCOTLAND – By the time a transplant match was found, amid chronic shortages of donors across the UK, she was too ill for the operation which could have saved her life.

Gail’s family have backed an Evening Times campaign, launched today, to persuade the Scottish Government to launch an ‘opt out’ system of organ donation where everyone is automatically placed on the donor register.

It would mean that, unless people opted out, or relatives objected, hospitals would be allowed to use their organs for transplants.

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