Consensus Statement On Live Organ Donor

Since 2000, a Consensus Statement on Live Organ Donor has been published in the Journal of American Medical Association after careful evaluations, various work groups organized in Kansas City, Mo. It represents a reach in a global agreement among many people from different backgrounds working in the transplant field, e.g. physician, nurses, living donors, recipients, etc. The agreement itself aims at providing a protection guideline to people who involve in the transplantation process and who care about living donors’ safety. Today, a significant shortage in supply of organs donated has driven people to open a door to the idea of “selling human organs”, which is currently prohibited in most countries. Debates go on whether it is right to apply

This application actually brings some benefits to our lives. Since money becomes an incentive, the huge gap between supply and demand of human organs can be filled. As a result, thousands of people’s lives will be saved. Since 2004, it is estimated that every 14 minutes passing by, there is an average addition of 106 people into the transplant recipient list. While the number of patients needed transplant surgery increases every day, the quantity of donors tends to be stable. Therefore, giving protection to organ sellers also encourages an increase in organ provision, avoiding unnecessary deaths every day. Moreover, accepting organ market can reduce the operation of organ trafficking which has reaped huge profits from impoverished people’s miseries. The black market crimes buy organs from hopeless people, who desperately need money, with an agreed price ranging from $1000 to $5000 USD and sell these at prices up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, this amount of money can be paid to better off regions suffering from

The criteria first suggests to let sellers liberally make their choices. They should not be reluctant or forced in any case. Nonetheless, that money has driven them to sell parts of their bodies cannot be disregarded. A case in Pakistan shows that to be out of debt, four family members had to give up their kidneys. It looks like these decisions had been made by their willingness; however, they are actually slaves of money. In fact, organ sellers are controlled by the small papers that they have no other choices but to risk their lives. Furthermore, the criteria also includes sellers’ rights to be well informed about advantages and disadvantages as being a seller and a recipient. In 2013, more than 28,000 transplantations were conducted in The United States while only half of these came from donation. For the first time, the word “medical tourism” was coined. It explains how people from developed nations, e.g. US, Canada, Japan, travel oversea to poorer countries like Iran, India, searching for kidneys. This situation implies that most of organ sellers are suffering from wretch lives while buyers have higher living standards. Living in poor conditions, these people are usually uneducated and lack of medical knowledge to fully understand the potential risks they are going to face. Though sellers are being well