Organ Donation: We Can Break Taboos Among British BAME Communities

July 19, 2018

(The Guardian) – De La Mode is one of hundreds of patients from the UK’s black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities who are forced to wait longer than the majority of white patients due to a paucity of suitable organs from the same ethnic and racial pool. A new report from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) reveals that 21% of people who died on the waiting list last year were from a BAME background, compared with 15% a decade ago. The percentage of donors from BAME backgrounds did increase last year, but is still at just 7%.