Letter: Children’s Lung Transplants

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Re "Lung Transplant Rules for Children" (editorial, June 13):

The medical community is examining the rules for lung transplants in children. But how people look at organ donation must also change. The families of two seriously ill children felt that they needed to sue to be fairly considered for lungs from adult donors. But if there were more donors, these children might have gotten new lungs long ago.

About 118,000 people are on the national organ waiting list, and more than 1,600 people are waiting for new lungs. Only a few are children under 12. Despite the ease of becoming an organ donor, less than half of the adults in the United States are signed as donors. In New York State, only 20 percent of adults are signed organ donors.

Volunteering to be an organ donor is easy. In many states, it is part of a driver's license application. So who can stop this from happening again? Every one of us.

STEVEN J. CORWIN
New York, June 14, 2013

The writer, a cardiologist and internist, is chief executive of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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