TEAMS of specialist staff in hospital intensive-care units and emergency departments will be the main focus of a push to increase Australia's flagging organ donation rate, which is one of the worst in the world.
More organ-transplant doctors, counsellors and organ-donation co-ordinators will be employed in public and private hospitals to work with dying patients and their families as part of a $136 million package of reforms announced yesterday by the Prime Minister. Until now, funding for organ-donation programs has focused on education campaigns, but they have failed to boost the number of people willing to become donors.
SMH 3 Jul 2008
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