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'Brutal reality' of sick transplant patients given the lungs of smokers, warns top surgeon
Desperate transplant patients are being given the lungs of chain smokers because the NHS is so short of organ donations.
Surgeons are also being forced to use diseased body parts from cancer sufferers, drug addicts and the very elderly.
Experts say that the waiting list for transplants has now grown so long that hospitals are increasingly resorting to implanting so-called 'high risk' organs.
There are around 8,000 people needing an organ donation at any one time and every day three patients die because they do not get one in time.
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