QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital is setting out to reassure the public that the bodies of their loved ones will not be disfigured if they allow the organs to be used for transplantation.
The move is part of a month-long organ donation campaign to celebrate the hospital's 30th anniversary.
Campaign chairman Dr Chau Ka-foon said people were usually very concerned about what the body would look like after organs were removed for transplantation.
''One very important worry is that once we open the body and take out the organs there will be a hole,'' she said.
In fact, the body was treated just like any person undergoing an operation, she said.
Doctors sewed up incisions and, in the case of bone transplant, they inserted artificial implants to maintain the shape of the donor body, she said.
