Manchester organ donor campaign targets blacks and Asian groups

BBC News Manchester

Black and Asian communities in Greater Manchester are being urged to sign up for the organ register to combat a shortage of donors.

About 26% of people in the area needing transplants are black or Asian.

Only 2% of people from the two communities are on the national Organ Donation Register.

Jane Monks, an organ donation nurse, said a transplant is "much more likely to be successful" between donors and recipients of the same ethnic origin.

She said: "It is vital that more black and Asian people join the NHS Organ Donor Register.

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