Comment on Registration bug blocked 60,000 Canadians from opting into organ donation

Registration bug blocked 60,000 Canadians from opting into organ donation

A web registration bug that affected over 60,000 organ donation registrations certainly couldn't have helped these Ontario percentage numbers. Yesterday, the government of Ontario put out a giant, public call to correct a web registration error that resulted in over 60,000 inaccurate organ donation applications. According to a letter sent to affected province citizens by ServiceOntario, the error went unnoticed for nearly 18 months, and it centered around wrongly recorded "exclusions," meaning organs that someone would rather not allow to be harvested after death.

 

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