Scarcity of minority organ donors is ‘dire’
August 27, 2007 · Print This Article
Nicole Hutcheson, St. Petersburg Times
Seated on the edge of the tan couch inside his slit of a trailer, William Franco thumbs the pages of a worn leather Bible.
Genesis 2:21: And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh. …
“The first organ transplant,” Franco says in Spanish, with his wife, Maria, translating. Franco smiles, his swollen abdomen inflating slightly. At 54, he needs a new liver.
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