Amendments to the transplant law allowing people under 18 to be living donors would be considered only if a significant majority backed it, the health minister said.
Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man commented as the government pledged to launch a public consultation soon on whether to amend the Human Organ Transplant Ordinance after a 17-year-old girl wanted to donate part of her liver to save her mother, but was barred as she was three months shy of the legal age to make a donation...
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