Particularly affected by this shortage, African Americans wait, on average, a year longer than white patients to benefit from an organ transplant, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). « In the United States, black people are four times more likely to suffer from kidney failure than white people, but they are much less likely to receive a life-saving kidney transplant », notice Jewel Mullen, physician and dean of the AAMC’s Office of Health Equity. Finally, expanding the pool of potential donors would significantly increase the likelihood that these patients will receive critical care in a tighter timeframe, according to elected Democrat Carlos González, who wants to ” inform and educate about the disproportionate number of Blacks and Latinos who die while waiting for donors ».
« simply appalling »
Since she shared this bill, titled « Act to establish the Massachusetts incarcerated individual bone marrow and organ donation program », on her social networks on January 27, MP Judith García came under criticism from political opponents but also from prison associations, who consider this proposal unethical. ” Inducing the sale of your body parts in exchange for the most precious commodity in the world – which is your time on this Earth and your freedom – is simply appalling. “, thus condemns Michael Cox, executive director of the organization of abolition of the prisons Black and Pink Massachusetts, in an interview granted to the site Boston.