Features : No Coercion In Organ Donation, Say Expert
April 6, 2026
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This is a three-part series focusing on the issue of organ donation in Malaysia, particularly involving brain-dead patients. In this second part, Bernama explores how the organ donation process is carried out in practice. Organ donation after death plays a critical role in the national transplant system as living donations are limited to certain organs, such as the kidney.
However, experts stress that there is no element of coercion in organ donation cases involving brain-dead patients in any hospital. Decisions regarding organ donation ultimately rest with the family or next of kin, even if the deceased had registered as an organ donor, said Dr Yap Mei Hoon, an anaesthetist and intensive care specialist at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) here.
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