House amends law on organ donation

The House plenum on Friday voted unanimously for a law amendment to ensure that someone who signed up for organ donation when they were alive cannot have their will overturned by relatives upon death.
The bill has been passed with the aim of increasing the number of post-mortem donors. as Cyprus is last in Europe as regards the numbers.
In Cyprus, organ donors clock in at 6.5 per million inhabitants while in Europe this figure rises to 20 per million.
Currently, about 50 people in Cyprus are waiting for a kidney transplant but their chances are low.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.