DSE LS Question

A) According to source A, the number of patients waiting for live donor was always higher than that of deceased donor in that particular year between 2001 and 2010. In 2001, the number of live donor was 37, which was larger than that of deceased donor by 14. In 2010, the number of live donor was 53, which was larger than that of deceased donor by 11. Therefore, the pattern of donation is that the number of patients waiting for live donor was always larger than that of deceased donor. Besides, the number of liver donation of patients waiting for transplantation was increasing. In 2001, the total number of patients waiting for donor was 60. Yet, in 2010, the total number of patients waiting for donor was 95, which was 1.5 times that in 2001. It reflected that the number of patients were willing to have transplantation was increasing gradually.

B) According to source C and my own knowledge, there are three factors that affecting people’s willingness to donate organs, which are advancement of technology, promotion from the government and cultural factor. First of all, advancement of technology is a key factor that affecting people’s willingness to donate organs. With reference to source C, it mentioned that “Hong Kong is in the forefront of organ transplant in terms of medical skills and talents.” Since the medical skills and technology become advanced nowadays, people will have a greater sense of safety to donate organ as the successfulness of the surgery is greatly enhanced. Therefore, the more advanced the technology, the higher the willingness to donate organ as people think that their lives are guaranteed. Furthermore, promotion from the government can be a factor to affect people’s mind-set of organ donation. It is because the more the promotions worked by the government, the more the information gained by the citizens. When people have a higher understanding about the organ donations, they can know the details of the surgery,