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Former deputy health minister Dr Lee Boon Chye says cultural and religious factors remain key barriers, with public education key to overcoming them.

PETALING JAYA: The government will need to obtain the buy-in of Malaysians first if it intends to introduce an opt‑out system for organ donations, says a former deputy health minister.

Dr Lee Boon Chye said there were cultural and religious barriers that made the public apprehensive about becoming organ donors, and public education was key to overcoming these obstacles.

An opt‑out system for organ donation, in which a person would be presumed to be an organ donor unless they actively opted out, was proposed recently by the Galen Centre think tank.

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