Sunday, March 29, 2009

Curernt affaris - organ donations

After reading the Wednesday's Straits Times article titled 'Kidney payment gets nod', I felt that the reimbursement of living kidney donors is very dangerous as it may turn into organ trading instead of organ donating. I feel that there should be caps on payments to prevent the more wealthy population from getting the upper hand in getting donors to donate organs to them. The donors need not choose between the wealthier or the less wealthy patient to donate the organ to. Instead, the patients who are in a more critical condition would be given the prirority if donated organs are available. The government could closely monitor the transaction between the donor and the receiver to ensure that both parties do not abuse this new system.

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