Feds: Patient with Intellectual Disability Blocked from Organ Transplant List
February 18, 2019
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop
Federal officials say that a major university health care system will change its ways after denying a person with intellectual disability the opportunity to be placed on a transplant list.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights said it has reached a resolution with the University of North Carolina Health Care system over a complaint alleging that a doctor decided that an individual with intellectual disability would not be a good candidate for a heart transplant because of their disabilities and the fact that the person does not live independently.
The complaint, which was brought in September 2018, indicated that the individual would eventually die without the transplant.