New laws increase the opportunity to be an organ donor
Source: Western Australia. Minister for Health. Media Release
"An extra 15 dangerously ill Western Australians could receive lifesaving transplants each year under new laws expected to pass State Parliament this week that will bring WA into line with other Australian States and Territories. Health Minister Jim McGinty said the ‘Living Wills’ legislation would remove legal uncertainties in obtaining consent from patients and their families for organ donation to occur after the heart had stopped. “The laws will give Western Australian doctors the same legal protection that their colleagues in other parts of Australia have, enabling them to raise the matter of organ donation when it has become clear that a patient is no longer benefitting from medical care and is about to die,” Mr McGinty said."