Patient showed awareness on operating-room table while awaiting removal of organs
By WND Staff
RFK Jr., the chief of the nation’s Department of Health and Human Services, has announced the decertification of “Network for Hope,” an organ procurement company working in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia.
The group, which sought to obtain organs and then deliver them for transplant procedures, was cited for “extensive” patient safety failures.
In one case cited by Kennedy, a patient was on an operating room table and was showing awareness of his situation with the procurement company pushing for completion of the harvesting.
Surgeons refused and that man remains alive today because of their decision.
Kennedy said the organization put patients on organ donation pathways “who never should have been there,” and sometimes the donation procedures continued even though the patients were not appropriate organ donors.