Wednesday 18 November 2015

Some Things Money Can't Buy.| Why You Can’t Sell a Kidney

Have you ever wanted to sell your blood? How about your hair and with some men, your sperm? People do this all the time and nobody seems to have an issue with this type of commerce. Perhaps it is because humans replenish sperm and hair and blood. Could the issue really be that simple? Is that why you can’t sell a kidney?

Some Things Money Can't Buy.| Why You Can’t Sell a Kidney

When I was in college my roommate and I considered selling blood during a particularly difficult time. We needed to pay rent and in those days blood banks were paying $30 per visit. A few trips to the Blood Bank and we might make it, we thought.

We never did sell any blood, but the option existed for us. I think this is more of the issue than anything else-the option existed for us and in the United States we are used to options being available. With so many human body parts on the block, including hair, I wonder why an organ is not on the list.  I guess the simple reason is that Congress has established guidelines as to why you can’t sell a kidney. They are very clear.

The United States Congress has made sure that organs do not become available for sale in the United States.  It makes no difference that 14 people die each day waiting for a kidney transplant. Congress is sticking to their guns on this one. Finally, we have breached the gridlock in Washington DC. The National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) of 1984 strictly outlines this decision. The theory surrounds the unequal social factors that are obvious. The wealthy or at least those with money will coerce the downtrodden to cough up a kidney for compensation.

Even  donations from deceased individuals cannot involve compensation.

Since the abolishment of slavery, many humans detest the commercialization of organs and render this a step backwards as a society. Moreover, how would you determine a price for a kidney? Would it be according to age? Establishing a baseline for health would be important, however would the benefit of compensating circumstances create an arena of fraud among donors? Would an individual actually mislead a patient about their health if money were involved?

Since Congress doesn’t have the topic within sight and we can assume that if the subject did make it to the floor, it would end in no action, what then are we to do?

As a people, concerned about mankind and the people in our communities and churches and families, what shall we do to address this issue? Some suggest that we compensate families of deceased individuals for the right to harvest and distribute a loved ones organs. Perhaps, more prudent would be to offer the financial incentives to the individual while he or she was still alive and to get the approval from the donor themselves.

Another idea was to create a market based on the future value of an organ. In such an instance, the healthy individual would enter his organ into a pool along with several other potential donors and depending on supply and demand, when the individual meets his-her end, the reward would go to the family members. Such an award would already have been established by the marketplace and an agreement would be in place before the death of the donor.

And finally, we find ourselves here at this website, livekidneydonation.org and read more about Kidney Infection Symptoms.

It is a site where individuals with kidney disease can tell their story with the hopes of connecting with others who may care enough to offer help. Help may not come in the way of a kidney donation, but the simple act of sharing such a personal tragedy with others will help to uncover an issue millions face and never discuss.

2 comments:

  1. ATTENTION! ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!!!
    I am Dr. Samson Imonitie of National Hospital Abuja, I am a specialist in organ Surgery, and we deal with the buying of organ from human who want to sell, and we are located in Nigeria, USA and in Malaysia, but our head office is in Nigeria. if you are Interested in Selling your Kidney, or selling any part of your body organ Please contact us for more information. Contact us via email:
    nationalhospitalabuja1@yahoo.com or call our telephone number +2348151212655

    Email: nationalhospitalabuja1@yahoo.com

    We await your response.

    Regards,
    Dr. SAMSON.
    Doctor In Charge.
    NATIONAL HOSPITAL ABUJA..

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  2. ATTENTION! ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!!!
    I am Dr. Samson Imonitie of National Hospital Abuja, I am a specialist in organ Surgery, and we deal with the buying of organ from human who want to sell, and we are located in Nigeria, USA and in Malaysia, but our head office is in Nigeria. if you are Interested in Selling your Kidney, or selling any part of your body organ Please contact us for more information. Contact us via email:
    nationalhospitalabuja1@yahoo.com or call our telephone number +2348151212655

    Email: nationalhospitalabuja1@yahoo.com

    We await your response.

    Regards,
    Dr. SAMSON.
    Doctor In Charge.
    NATIONAL HOSPITAL ABUJA..

    ReplyDelete