NJTO, serving the Newark, Camden, and Trenton areas, is one of 55 organ procurement organizations in the United States charged with coordinating the retrieval of donor organs for the more than 103,000 people on the national transplant waiting list each year.
Smith told reporters ahead of the letter’s publication that the allegations made by the whistleblowers were “some of the most disturbing we have seen in our ongoing investigations into organ procurement organizations.”
One of the allegations against the NJTO involves the cover-up of a case involving the donation of a patient’s organs after circulatory death, wherte the patient continues to show neurological signs of life.
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