A health ministry decree laying
down tacit consent for organ donation in Italy was passed on
Tuesday.
The norm was first approved in 1991.
It has since laid fallow in parliament.
"After 20 years this is a fundamental move," said Health
Minister Giulia Grillo.
Declarations of willingness to donate organs and tissue have
doubled in the last 15 months, the Mutual Choice project said
recently.
The declarations reached five million with one on her digital
ID card by a woman at Curtatone near Mantua, it said.
The scheme allows organ donation statements to be made when
those documents are issued, and has brought a surge in
declarations.
The most generous so far have been in the northern towns of
Proves near Bolzano, Taurianova, and Bolzano itself.
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