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I voted in favour of this report. Organ donation saves lives; it is a gift of oneself which is the ultimate act of solidarity. Unfortunately, there is a continuing organ shortage and in Europe almost 10 people on transplant waiting lists die each day.
The EU must help bring national transplant organisations together. Increased cooperation would offer guarantees to patients who donate or receive organs outside their own Member State. Some new Member States whose healthcare systems are less richly endowed could benefit from this.
The organ shortage is all too often linked with organ trafficking. We are seeing the emergence of forms of ‘transplant tourism’ which exploit poverty outside the EU’s borders. This ‘trade’ in human beings risks undermining the confidence of citizens and aggravating the shortage of voluntary organ and tissue donations.
The principle of free donation is also fundamental, although compensation for the costs of organ removal should be paid to living donors.
Finally, we should encourage biotechnology research that will provide researchers with a means of growing organs from existing tissues, either from the patients themselves or from other tissue donors."@en1
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