Organ Donation Pros And Cons

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1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background of the Issue

This report is written to examine the effect of organ donation/sale among the people as there has

been a number of issue which bring to the community because not all of them could accept organ

donation/sale which may touch to their religion and culture. In this research project, the report would

be intended to analyse the pros and cons of organ donation/sale.

Organ donation is the process of providing people of biological tissue or organ of the human body (The Pros

and Cons n.d). Organs for organ donation are removed from the deceased or living donor for transplantation

purposes through a surgical procedure known as allotransplantations , defined as same species to species

transplant(The Pros and Cons n,d).There …show more content…

People in the poor countries will get involved which sell their organ to earn

money.(e.g Phillippines,Nepal,India)

3.2 Benefits for the recipients and living donor

Organ donation has bring positive impact to both recipients and living donor. When there is more people

donate their organ, the recipient will have a shorter waiting time for the organ. Over 89,000 U.S. patients are

currently waiting for an organ transplant; nearly 4,000 new patients are added to the waiting list each month.

Every day, 17 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ, such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas,

lung or bone marrow. This is because of the lack of available donors in this country, 3,886 kidney patients,

1,811 liver patients, 457 heart patients and 483 lung patients died in 2004 while waiting for life

transplants.(National Kidney Foundation n.d)

When the organs are transplant to the recipient body, the organ can function immediately and also helps the

recipient recover faster and shortens the length of the hospital stay. Recipients of living

generally released from the hospital on the fifth day after the transplant. Moreover, the supply of