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Opinion: Brazil’s Politicians Pre-empt Transplants

Opinion, by Michael Royster

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – One of the few things President (for the time being) Temer has done right recently is promulgate a Decree providing that the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) must maintain, at all times, at least one plane which is specially equipped for organ transplants, including transplant patients and their families.

During the three year period 2013-2015, over 150 Brazilians have not received organ transplants because the life-saving organ could not be sent to the hospital where the transplant would take place, and have died as a result.

It’s not because of . . .

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