Lee Chen Hoe-22nd March 2008-Rare are organ donors

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Main Page » Home » Local » Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Rare are the organ donors
At current rate, too few kidney sufferers will ever have the chance to lead normal life: Green
Ribbon
KUCHING: Diners sitting down for the Green Ribbon Support Kuala Lumpur’s dinner at Civic Centre
here on Thursday were given the gloomy picture of how Malaysians do not quite like to donate their
organs to give others the chance to lead a normal life.
Green Ribbon Support Kuala
Lumpur’s secretary Lee Chen
Hoe who spoke at the dinner
said at the current rate, less
than 0.5 per cent of Malaysians
have registered as organ donors
and that from about 6,000 who
died of road accidents every
year, less than 10 donated their
organs.
“There are about 15,000 people
in the country having kidney
problems and undergoing
treatment and a lot of them
need kidney replacement. At the
current rate, too few of these
sufferers will ever have the
chance to lead a normal life,” he
said.
Lee pointed out that kidney problems usually occur because of people’s eating habits.
Besides, he said, those 50 years old and above who suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure
have a higher risk of having kidney-related problems.
Therefore, he advised members of the public to take less sugar, salt, oily food, and to drink more
water to reduce the risk of kidney diseases.
Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Works Datuk Yong Khoon Seng said Malaysia is in need of more
organ donors to save the lives of thousands of patients who are currently in need of new organ
transplants.
He said while there are a few thousand kidney and heart disease patients who need operations and
are waiting for replacement of their organs so that they can continue to live, unfortunately there are
too few donors.
“Every year, there are a lot of people dying in road accidents. I know that it is difficult to make
decision to donate the organs of a loved one who has just died, but I hope the immediate family
members or spouses will allow their organs to be donated to those in need as a single donor can
save the lives of several people,” he said.
Yong was speaking at the Green Ribbon Support Kuala Lumpur’s dinner at Civic Centre here on
Thursday.
He called upon more people to register as organ donors to make decision-making process easier and
less stressful to their relatives.
SAVING LIVES: Yong (second right) handing over a souvenir to a registered
donor as organising chairman Houstan Law (right) looks on.
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