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Article: Illinois Excluded in Organ Sharing
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- August 20, 1999
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ANDREW BUCHANAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
08-20-1999
Illinois Excluded in Organ Sharing
CHICAGO (AP) -- Patients in grave need of new livers have been put at risk by a new Midwestern organ-sharing network that excludes Illinois, some organ transplant officials say.
``The bottom line is I think somebody's going to die,'' said Dr. Michael Abecassis, director of liver transplants at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
According to a four-state agreement launched this week, donor livers are offered to patients with the most urgent need regardless of where they reside in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Under regions established by the United Network of Organ ...