‘Last gift’: Concerns over low organ donation rate in Malaysia while many needing transplant wait for years

Notwithstanding a marginal increase in organ transplant rates over the past two years, Malaysia must undertake considerable efforts to enhance these numbers, says one expert. KUALA LUMPUR: On the last day of 2022, Mashita Ramli’s world shattered. Her husband, healthy just a day before, had inexplicably slipped into a coma. After a couple of tests that were conducted over a period of over two days at the Selayang Hospital in Malaysia’s Selangor state, Sipen Mat Nur was declared brain dead.