Presumed Consent in Practice: Understanding Singapore’s Organ Donation System
by Rushil Srinath, Heidi Goh Credit to Unsplash: Jesse Orrico INTRODUCTION Between 1970 and 1981, only 22 deceased donor kidney transplants were performed in Singapore. Clearly, the country’s organ donation system faced a problem. With growing transplant waiting lists and consistently low voluntary donation rates, the Government saw the need for change. Hence in 1987, it introduced a new organ donation framework based on presumed consent. All adults would be automatically considered as...