Glitch in British Organ Donor List

A programming glitch for organ donation in Britain has caused about 800,000 people to be wrongly categorized, meaning people who chose to donate a lung could have instead been marked as wanting to donate a heart. Britain’s National Health Service Blood and Transplant organization said Saturday that the error started in 1999, and has affected 800,000 people of their list of 14 million donors. Forty-five of the affected people have died and donated organs, and the agency estimates that less than half were subject to erroneous organ donations. An official from the organization said that the error has been corrected since they were made aware of it late last year, and “There’s no possibility of any incorrect data being used today.”