NY’s organ removal ambulance

In New York City, there were speculations that an ambulance who will be equipped with a selected group of paramedics will be roaming around the city waiting for a deceased body and shall preserve the organ so that it can be donated to those who are in desperate need of replacements.

This will be a rapid organ recovery ambulance who will also have a counselor on board who will then talk to families about donating the organs. Of course, this action would raise a lot of ethical questions. There will be a point wherein people would think that the paramedics will simply let the patients die so that their organs could be donated. Another thing is that most family members may think that this act is rather ghoulish in nature although top medical officials would say that this is a very good move in order to save lives of several hundreds of people.

There is no absolute time yet as to when the ambulance will begin to roam the streets. As a precaution, they have noted that the ambulance will have no contact with paramedics on duty and that a supervisor will be the one to call the organ recovery team in not less than 5 minutes after the patient is declared dead.

Their next step for now is to consult with a large number of New Yorkers which will include religious groups. They said that if the general public is not yet satisfied with their answers, then they will not push forward with their pilot test.