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Access to health care and organ donation

When: Monday, 12 March 2018 - Monday, 12 March 2018
Where: Parktown Health Sciences Campus
Marie Curie Lecture Theatre
Start time:18:00
Enquiries:

Samkelo.Nsibande@wits.ac.za / 011 717-2190

The Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics will host this talk during the Ethics Alive Week.

Speakers include:

  • Professor Roy Thomas (Chief Executive, Kidney Wales Foundation) on Playing God in Organ Donation
  • Dr Shoyab Wadee (Nephrologist, Wits University and Donald Gordon Medical Centre) on Presumed Consent and Organ Shortage
  • Professor Magda Slabbert (Professor of Law, Department of Jurisprudence, University of South Africa) on Presumed Consent with Routine Referral
  • Professor Saraladevi Naicker (Chairperson - Ministerial Advisory Committee on Unrelated Organ Transplant) on Improving Kidney Transplant Rates in South Africa - Increasing Living Kidney Donation by Paired Exchanges and Donor Chains

                                          

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