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Organ donation, a lottery of life | Compass | ABC Australia
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3:38Now PlayingDeciding to donate your body’s organs can save up to seven lives! But the decision to donate organs from the body of a loved one presents families with one of life’s most difficult and heart-wrenching moments. Compass meets the recipients, donor families, nurses and doctors on the hospital frontline as they confront these complex ethical questions that strike at the heart of our beliefs and core values.
1800 people are currently waiting for an organ transplant in Australia. The national shortage of organs is reaching crisis point , and changing how we do organ donation has become a matter of life and death.
We follow Donate Life’s team behind the scenes as they work in hospitals and with clinical teams to retrieve and transplant tissue and organs meeting eight-year-old Cooper who had a successful double lung transplant
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