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Transplants, Medical Law. A young woman (A) has been diagnosed as having a progressive kidney disease
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A young woman (A) has been diagnosed as having a progressive kidney disease. One kidney has already failed and though she is receiving treatment her doctors have told her that if a kidney for transplant is not found soon she will be in danger of dying. She has registered as looking for a donor but she has an unusual blood group and there is a shortage of donors, particularly at present after the Alder Hey scandal. She does however have a sister (B) who is known to share her blood group but who is only fifteen and, due to a genetic disorder has a mental age of three. Legally B is incompetent to consent. Her parents are in favour of using this daughter as a donor as the doctor has told them that the risks to health presented by having only one functioning kidney are slight to a healthy patient....
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