A woman has described the trauma of watching family members wait more than a decade for an organ transplant before she herself was diagnosed with kidney failure, as NHS figures show Black and Asian people wait six months longer for a donor.
Six in ten (62 per cent) of those on a waiting list for an organ transplant in London were of Black or Asian heritage in March 2022, according to data released by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) on Thursday. There’s also been a marked increase in people from racialised communities across England and Wales needing a donor over the past year.
