Unrelated donors in kidney transplantation: Myths and the gruesome reality

A database with age, gender, ABO group, HLA typing, and place of residence ·Provide incentives for anyone who is willing to donate a kidney, including ·Lifelong health insurance ·Compensation for cost of travel and lost wages during the donation process/surgery ·Free hospitalization for donation sur...

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Published in:Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation 2020-03, Vol.31 (2), p.563-567
Main Authors: Toufeeq Khan, Taqi, Mirza, Irfan, Rashid, Tahir, Anwar, Nisar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bans
Blood & organ donations
Chronic kidney failure
Ethics
Hemodialysis
Humans
Incentives
Kidney
Kidney diseases
Kidney failure
Kidney transplantation
Kidney Transplantation - adverse effects
Kidney transplants
Legislation
Living Donors
Organized crime
Patients
Politics
Quality of life
Surgery
Tissue donation
Transplants & implants
Unrelated Donors
Wages & salaries
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Summary:A database with age, gender, ABO group, HLA typing, and place of residence ·Provide incentives for anyone who is willing to donate a kidney, including ·Lifelong health insurance ·Compensation for cost of travel and lost wages during the donation process/surgery ·Free hospitalization for donation surgery and recovery. The law of 2010 permitting donation from close blood relatives only, was a travesty, promulgated by ill-informed politicians, at the behest of vested interests and penalized patients with hereditary kidney disease, those whose family members who either refused or could not donate, and those who were ABO incompatible or only had elderly relatives with comorbidities?! There is talk that the remuneration of unrelated KTs demeans medical ethics, but does anyone stop to consider the sad plight of the CRF patients and their families. The ethical objection is the financial remuneration of the donor, but no ethics are considered breached when the medical center, transplant team, or the pharmaceutical companies get their pound of flesh!? This is mind boggling, considering that the only person in this entire chain making a sacrifice, is the donor! KT needs to be regulated by an incorruptible government agency (in reality an oxymoron), to compensate willing kidney donors.
ISSN:1319-2442
2320-3838
DOI:10.4103/1319-2442.284041