MK calls for organ donor registration at voting stations
11/05/2012 04:17
The Israel Transplant Center and Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner has asked Central
Election Committee chairman Justice Elyakim Rubinstein to approve the setting up
of tables at voting stations to register potential organ donors.
They
noted in the letter that hundreds of Israelis die waiting for a lifesaving donor
organ and that the percentage of those registered with the ADI organization
remains relatively low.
If Israeli citizens are in any case waiting in
the queue to vote on January 22, 2013, the transplant center and the MK said,
they may as well be offered the chance to “vote for life” and register as a
potential donor, which also gives extra points for the person and his family to
receive an organ if needed.
ADI said that anyone aged 17 or above can
register.