Family calls for opt-out donor card system

THE family of a woman who died as a result of liver disease arising from hepatitis C contracted following a platelet transfusion have called for an opt-out donor card system.

Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that 65-year-old Marie Simpson of Philipsburgh Avenue, Fairview, died on August 25 last year having suffered multi-organ failure and other complications arising following a liver transplant carried out five months earlier.

Ms Simpson required the transplant having reached end stage liver disease following her earlier contraction of hepatitis C through transfusion.