Organs may have been removed from deceased people without their consent after a data-handling error by the NHS.
The blunder meant 800,000 people on the UK donor register may have had their wishes about the use of organs for transplant wrongly recorded.
The Sunday Telegraph reported that 45 of them have now died – and 20 families let organs of relatives be taken based on incorrectly stored information.
NHS Blood and Transplant said it was urgently investigating.
Whew! I thought maybe there was a problem, but the same people who screwed it up are now looking into it.
So you have nothing to worry about in the UK as long as you don’t want a drink of water in the hospital, or after being sent home too soon. Or if, once you’ve died of thirst, you don’t mind your bodily organs being used against your express wishes. Hey, it beats some doctor getting rich, doesn’t it?
No wonder dozens and dozens of Britons say: