Scotland MSPs in "doc"k?

February 18, 2006
  • The proposed move to the amendment Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill was rejected by the parliamentarians.

    They in turn voted for continuing the current system. The current systems to ensure a person's wishes on the matter are respected after their death.

    Anyone with a donor card or who has their name on the Organ Donor Register will count automatically as having given their authorization - which cannot be overruled after death by relatives and if a person has not given consent, their family will be asked what their wishes would have been.

    This has sparked of a serious debate. Doctors in Scotland strongly protesting this move and hit out at the MSPs, after they failed to back a change to the law, which would have required people to opt out of becoming organ donors. With hundreds of patients waiting for organs this comes as a jolt to these patient's.

    Leaders of the British Medical Association in Scotland criticized the move. They had wanted to see a system of presumed consent, where it is assumed that people wanted their organs to be donated unless they had specifically asked for that not to happen.

    Dr Peter Terry, chairman of the BMA in Scotland said feels disappointed and let down by parliamentarians."

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