Ron Shorrer provides a translation (he says he 'upgraded' the Google translation):
"The health Committee
of the Knesset approved today (Monday) for the first reading the bill allowing
prioritizing transplants to living organ donor, even if they donated to a
relative. So far only ADI card holders who needed a
transplant received priority , but those who donated to their
relative remained outside the scope of the law, not winning this
priority.
"These
livedonors go through a process so difficult," said the discussion MK
Gal-On (Meretz), who initiated the bill along with committee chairman MK Haim
Katz (Likud). "There is no difference in suffering between those who
donated to a stranger and those who donated to a family member. "Galon
stressed that the bill has the support of the government.
"It took hard rehabilitation over three months,"
said Dina Abecassis Committee, which donated a kidney to her brother patient 15
years ago. "Family members should be encouraged to donate organs,
since there is 99% match. I say that the Benefit also should apply
retroactively to everyone who donated organs years ago, like me, not only from
the entry into force of the law".
"Today people are donating to family members in the lack
of choice," said Amos wing debate, Israel's national chairman kidney
transplant patients. "They do it because there is hardly no donations from
the dead . We need to reward even more the family members who
donate. "
"Representative of the Ministry of Health, Mr. Meir Broder
praised the bill and noted that an organ donor is at health risk and therefore
should be provided with a safety net as suggested in this amendment.
"Hundreds of Israeli patients are waiting right now
for an organ donation and the bill that we submitted may encourage
family members to pitch in and contribute," said committee chairman MK
Haim Katz. "Later we will discuss the application of the legislative
process to the benefit of family members who donated in years past."
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