Transplant crisis as need for body organs outruns willing donors

The console where the heart is "reactivated" before a transplant. Kenyans lack a supportive legal structure for organ donation. [File, Standard]

Declining family sizes, an ageing population and a rigid attachment to the dead have led to an acute shortage of transplant organs in Kenya.

“We are appealing to Kenyans to support organ harvesting from their dead,” pleads Prof Peter Mungai of the East Africa Kidney Institute.