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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Clark on October 26, 2011, 12:30:25 PM
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http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/last-time-i-nearly-died-but-i-d-go-abroad-again-to-buy-kidney-to-save-me-1.1131300
Last time I nearly died...but I'd go abroad again to buy kidney to save me
By CAROLINE WILSON
A RESTAURATEUR who almost died after buying a kidney transplant abroad has backed the Evening Times’ campaign to launch an ‘opt out’ system of organ donation in Scotland.
Bobby Singh, 46, from Glasgow, believes an opt-out policy – where the default position is that everyone is a donor – would vastly increase his chances of receiving the life-saving kidney transplant he needs.
The father-of-three made the “desperate” decision to pay £22,000 for a transplant in Pakistan in 2005 after being on the register for five years.
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