Organ Donation: To ask or not to ask?

According to the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) service (https://www.nhsbt.nhs. uk/) figures, 66% of Black, Asian and some Ethnic Minority (BAME) communities in the UK refuse to give permission for their loved ones’ organs to be donated compared to 43% of the rest of the population. Since blood and human leucocyte antigen types are among the most important factors when organs are matched, success of transplantation is likely to be greater when the ethnicity of the donor and recipient are the same. [...]of this ongoing shortage many BAME patients wait longer than white patients for a transplant or may die while waiting and this can be misconstrued as a bias towards white patients and an inequality in the transplant programme. [...]another study in the America by Guadagnoli, McNamara, Evanisko et al.