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CANBERRA, Australia, April 24 (UPI) -- Australian physicians will no longer have to seek permission from relatives of a registered organ donor to harvest body parts for transplants.
The new policy comes after the nation's health ministers met to find ways of increasing organ donation and solve other problems, the Australian reported Saturday.
However, grieving families will still be able to exercise a veto over the instructions of a relative who wanted to donate his or her organs.
"It will be a right of veto, rather than the necessity to get explicit permission," federal Health Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday.
The ministers also agreed to publish more data on accidents and errors in hospitals as part of a major new national safety strategy in healthcare.
And they adopted uniform protocols to ensure the correct body part is operated on and the right surgical procedure is performed.
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