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Amsterdam, Netherlands – A television show in which a dying woman was to have donated a kidney to a contestant was revealed to be a hoax today.
Presenters said they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ-donation laws.
At the last moment, presenters of the “Big Donor Show” said the woman was not actually dying of a brain tumor as claimed and that the entire exercise was intended to pressure the government and raise public awareness of the need for organs.
The three prospective recipients were real patients in need of a transplant and had been in on the hoax, the show said.
