How organ donation works in S’pore?

In Singapore, the Goverment will decide what to do with organs over your dead body, unless one has registered with the Government that they wish to opt out from the organ donation policy.

It’s very disturbing when I came across this article on South China Morning Post. Doctors at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) had declared patient Sim Tee Hua’s brain-dead and said they could not delay switching off life support any longer because of the risk of damage to Sim’s organs, despite Sim’s 68-year-old mother and about 20 other relatives knelt weeping before the doctors, begging them to wait.

Subsequently, nine police officers entered the ward and restrained the distraught family while Sim’s body was quickly whisked away.

"The hospital staff were running as they wheeled him out of the back door of the room. They were behaving like robbers," said Sim Chew Hiah, one of Sim’s elder sisters.

I’m speechless.