More organ donors needed in BAME community

Receiving a transplant from a donor with a similar ethnic background increases the chances of a transplant being successful. And not only are many people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities more likely to develop conditions that make them more likely to need an organ transplant — people from BAME backgrounds are waiting longer than white patients for organs. When it comes to lung transplants, white patients waited 261 days, and Asian patients waited 1,191. For urgent heart transplants, Black patients waited 44 days longer than white patients.