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Sat 12 Dec 2009Wales to seek 'opt-out' organ donation system
ORGANS COULD be taken for transplant from all deceased people in Wales unless their families declare outright objections, under a plan announced yesterday by the Welsh assembly.
The move came as the chief medical officer for England and Wales, Liam Donaldson, said it was “a scandal” that so many people were dying because of the shortage of donations.
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