The staggering sum was revealed as a YouGov poll showed that three million adults would consider donating one of their kidneys to a stranger who needed a transplant.
Last year, so-called ‘altruistic donors’, who do not know the people who will receive their organ, accounted for just three per cent of living donor kidney transplants.
The presenter of Channel 4 News said: ‘This is a very, very interesting and hugely important development.
‘Nobody needs telling that the crisis in kidney donation is acute.’
About 300 people a year die in the UK waiting for a kidney transplant.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2056339/Wiping-kidney-transplant-waiting-list-save-NHS-650million.html#ixzz1eB7BdNW2
Similar saving seen in the United States.
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