Australian Government Urged to Consider ‘Opt-Out’ Organ Donation

Australian Government Urged to Consider ‘Opt-Out’ Organ Donation
Chinese doctors carry fresh organs for transplant at a hospital in Henan Province on Aug. 16, 2012. Screenshot/Sohu.com
Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
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Australia’s federal government is considering steps to automatically register all Australian residents as organ donors, unless they opt-out.

The government’s Inquiry into Human Organ Trafficking and Organ Transplant Tourism proposed the measure to help reduce lengthy wait times for organ donations in order to deter patients seeking organ transplants from turning to the international organ market as a transplant tourism.
Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
Richard Szabo is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years' experience in news writing at mainstream and niche media organizations. He has a specialty in business, tourism, hospitality, and healthcare reporting.
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