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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Thursday. Feb. 20, 1986
Organ gift requests debated
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
Human organs and tissues needed for transplants are in short supply. But a Kansas Senate bill requiring hospitals to request anatomical gifts could make people more aware of the shortage, a physician at the University of Kansas Medical Center said last week.
After another hearing today, however, the life of the bill itself might be in question.
The physician, Barbara Gill,
defended the bill yesterday at a hearing
of the Senate Public Health and
Welfare Committee. Gill is also
the coordinator of the heart transplant
team at the Med Center.
Gill said organ transplant technology expanded the range of medical treatment, making organ availability important.
"It is state-of-the-art care," she said.
The proposed requirement, Gill said, would make people more aware of the problem and ease the shortage of organs.
But passage of the bill is no guarantee. Although the bill would
require hospitals to seek organ donors, a patient's family still could refuse the request.
Jane Warmbrodt, from the Midwest Organ Bank in Kansas City, Mo., said supporters of the bill agreed with its intent but not its wording. Even she has reservations.
"I don't like required request," Warmbrodt said.
Making the request a requirement, she said, can create an automatic aversion to the task. By creating guidelines and by helping hospital personnel deal with the situation, that aversion can be avoided.
Terri Rosselso, executive director for the Kansas State Nurses' Association, is the only person scheduled to speak against the bill. She said she didn't like the way the bill was worded
"This bill doesn't say anything," she said.
One section, she said, leaves hospitals with an escape. It says a hospital is not required to request organ donations if it does not have the room or personnel to maintain the donor.
Another section says the request and the family's response should be recorded in the patient's medical record. She said recording that information already was standard procedure.
Robert Ohlen, executive director of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, will not speak at the hearing but said yesterday that he was opposed to the bill.
But while the bill is debated, one feature of the organ donation issue remains in place. That feature is the organ donor card on the back of a driver's license.
Ohlens said the bill would require the hospital to spend time and money that it might never recover.
"It's an inappropriate request to place on community physicians and a community hospital," he said.
Roselot said the license donor card was an opportunity for people to participate voluntarily.
However, the request can be ignored. If the family of the patient refuses to meet the request, she said, the hospital has no legal right to take the organs.
The University Placement Center will present a workshop, "Successful Interviewing." at 3:30 p.m. today in 201 Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
On Campus
dance history film series.
Two films, "Modern Ballet," and Anna Sokolow's "Rrooms," will be shown at 4 p.m. today in 252 Robinson Center. The films are part of the
The KU Ki-Alido Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in 130 Robinson Center.
**Bob Miller, Witness For Peace volunteer in Nicaragua, will speak at 8:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., after the Latin American Solidarity
rice and beans dinner, which starts at 6 p.m. $1.50 donation accepted. At 7 p.m., Charles Stansifer, professor of history, and Robert Tomasek, professor of political science, will serve on a panel for a discussion on U. S. involvement in Nicaragua.
The Mt. Oread Bike Club racing team will meet at 7 p.m. today.
Bill to nab book thieves may affect state schools
If the state librarian gets his way, libraries at Board of Regents schools will be included in a Senate bill designed to nab book thieves
Duane Johnson, the state librarian in Topeka, said a bill introduced this year would make the theft of library materials worth more than $150 a class E felony, and theft of materials worth less than $150 a class A misdemeanor.
By a Kansan reporter
Under current wording of the bill, libraries at Regents schools are not included, Johnson said. But he said he planned to ask the Senate Judiciary Committee to change the language to include Regents' libraries during upcoming hearings.
Under the bill, the theft includes removing any material without checking it out, concealing books with the intent to take them beyond boundaries and failure to return the books within 30 days of receiving a written notice.
"We hope we will be able to recognize the importance of care," Johnson said. "It's a severe problem for libraries."
The bill now covers city, county township, district and regional libraries, he said.
Library officials at the University of Kansas say that they haven't had time to study the bill but that it probably would affect the University's library system.
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