Friday, October 5, 2007




Friendship worth losing a kidney for -46% would be live donors in Wales and KW says 70% or more would consider after death
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Welsh People value friendship so much they would donate one of their kidneys to a friend in need.A survey, commissioned by film company Disney, has revealed 46 per cent would give their organ.Sixty-six per cent said they would lend friends cash and almost half - 44 per cent - said they would work for or employ them.Determining the most important factor for choosing a friend, 70 per cent of Welsh people voted for honesty, followed by a good sense of humour - 68 per cent.
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( SOURCE : ARTICLE FROM MARCH 2007 BY LISA JONES SOUTH WALES ECHO)

PLUS COMMENT : The BBC 5 Live ran a great debate on Thursday morning on donating a kidney to a friend . We found this article by Lisa Jones from March to demonsrate the thoughts of us in Wales.On Thursday afternoon a patient rang Kidney Wales Foundation to say that he was asking friends if they would donate to him . NZ legend Jonah Lomu had a friend give him his new life.
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Until now, living donor transplants have occurred only between relatives or people with a close emotional relationship, such as couples living together.
But a change in the rules last year led the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) to allow strangers to donate to each other.
Experts hope up to 200 more kidney patients a year in the UK could benefit from this kind of transplant in the future. In the first few years, about 50 extra patients are expected to benefit in the UK.
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SEE BBC COVERAGE OF BOYLE BROTHERS FROM BRIDGEND

A new kidney click for film

Terry Boyle from Bridgend received a kidney from his younger brother.
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