Should the Sale of Organs be Legalised?


Question:
Today in the Independent it was reported Amy Friedman associate professor of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine saying "The demand for Life Saving organ transplantation has so outpaced supply that waiting patients and transplant teams are desparate."

Answers:
1. Kidney patients are known to have travelled abroad from Britain, mainly to India, to buy replacement organs. A survey from Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, in 2002 found 29NHS patients who had bought kidneys, Half of which failed. A third of patients dieing.
People who are financially disadvantaged will be the donors. Those that have the least healthy life style are likely to be the biggest donors causing a bigger failure rate. That may lead to "Trailer Trash" selling a Kidney so making them unfit for USA military service leading to a sever shortage of Military recruits.
Absolutely, who needs two kidneys anyway!


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