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‘It’s traumatic’: Woman in need of donor faces hurdles to get care

Susanna Lee has had the autoimmune disease lupus for 30 years and said the treatments and operations she needs to survive are difficult to find.

Some African Americans find out that getting care is harder than their white counterparts.

Lupus caused Lee’s kidney to fail a few years ago, and she is in need of a new one.

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Experts said Lee is already facing fewer options for a donor as an African American woman.

Lee was dropped from the waiting list.

“So here I am with no insurance,” Lee said. “So because I had no insurance, I was dropped from the transplant list. It’s traumatic. I mean, it is for me.”

People of color are having a harder time than others getting an organ transplant. Watch the video above as Reporter DaShawn Brown investigates the racial disparities in organ donations.