BritCits

#KidneyVisa

... is the hashtag being used to track this story :
http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-perfect-transplant-match-but-not.html

'Woman refused entry to Britain to give her brother a kidney' :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10762485/Woman-refused-entry-to-Britain-to-give-her-brother-a-kidney.html

"By taking a donor from within my family, we're ensuring that another organ could go to someone else. But the system is not built to take these things into consideration. From what I have seen, it's built to keep people who want to do good things out."

Letters: Bar on brave kidney donor disgraces Home Office :
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/letters-bar-on-brave-kidney-donor-disgraces-home-office-9257534.html

'You report on the sad failure of UK authorities to permit the Jamaican sister of UK citizen Oliver Cameron to enter the UK to give him an urgently needed kidney

'To fail to record the correct details of donor and donation (liver instead of kidney) is bad enough but to refuse to allow this brave act of life-saving love is an act of cruelty and a complete disgrace to us all. I pray the Home Secretary will ensure she apologises and enables the donation to take place straight away.

'Lest any believe this will be at net cost to the NHS, the expense to the NHS of keeping a patient on dialysis is around £30,000 a year, but only £5,000 a year after successful transplant.'