A Transplant patient is urging people to help make sure others don't have to endure the agonising wait for that life-saving call to say a donor has been found.She is...

A Transplant patient is urging people to help make sure others don't have to endure the agonising wait for that life-saving call to say a donor has been found.She is...

TRANSPLANT GRAN BACKS DONOR PLAN
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TERRY CROCKFORD
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09:00 - 07 July 2008



A Transplant patient is urging people to help make sure others don't have to endure the agonising wait for that life-saving call to say a donor has been found.She is asking people to back the idea of an organ donor opt-out scheme in Wales.

Mother-of-two Christine Gleaves, who received a new kidney three weeks ago, has welcomed plans for a shake-up of the Welsh organ donor system.

Assembly research shows one in two people support a presumed consent system where people have to opt out if they do not want to donate their organs.



Such a scheme would prove a life-saver for those anxiously awaiting transplants, says 58-year-old Mrs Gleaves, of Church Road, Seven Sisters.