Living medical donors (e.g. kidney) should be eligible for statutory sick pay

Around 7,000 people in the UK are currently waiting for a medical donation, of which around 1,000 people will die before one is found. The number of living donations has been decreasing over the last two years, this is not helped by the government and employers seeing donors as people making themselves ill. Donors should be treated equally as if the donor had become ill themselves, as such they should be entitled to statutory sick pay and an employee should receive their sickness package.