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Or we could start allowing the remuneration of donors, and not just everyone else involved in the transplant process. Paying for kidneys is legal in Iran, and g

Or we could start allowing the remuneration of donors, and not just everyone else involved in the transplant process. Paying for kidneys is legal in Iran, and guess what? No shortage there.

IdiranVibe 3y ago
Surely this just leads to people who are desperate being taken advantage of ...
generic92034 3y ago
How can you claim that? Certainly those who cannot pay are suffering from a shortage.
- pkaye 3y ago
  Another example is plasma donation to make plasma therapies. No country produces sufficient plasma for plasma therapies to meet the needs of their patient population unless they compensate for that donation. The few countries that do compensate are US, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. > The U.S., with only five per cent of the world’s population, provides more than 70 per cent of all the plasma used to make plasma therapies for the whole world. > If you add plasma obtained from Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic — the other countries where compensation is offered — compensated plasma accounts for 89 per cent of all the world’s plasma for plasma therapies. > This is worth emphasizing: There is no country in the world that manages to collect all the plasma needed for plasma therapies using non-compensated plasma collections. Every country in the world that uses plasma therapies depends on compensated plasma collections. https://theconversation.com/not-compensating-canadian-blood-plasma-donors-means-potentially-risky-reliance-on-foreign-plasma-143970 https://theconversation.com/not-compensating-canadian-blood-...
PradeetPatel 3y ago
As long as there's a moral and ethical framework governing it to prevent abuse. An ex-colleague of mine got a kidney transplant in China, most kidneys are from either volunteer donors or prisoners that have given their consent. Although it is not impossible for this type of system to be gamed, having proper governance around it might be a good way forward.

Or we could start allowing the remuneration of donors, and not just everyone else involved in the transplant process. Paying for kidneys is legal in Iran, and guess what? No shortage there.

IdiranVibe 3y ago

Surely this just leads to people who are desperate being taken advantage of ...

generic92034 3y ago

How can you claim that? Certainly those who cannot pay are suffering from a shortage.

pkaye 3y ago
Another example is plasma donation to make plasma therapies. No country produces sufficient plasma for plasma therapies to meet the needs of their patient population unless they compensate for that donation. The few countries that do compensate are US, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. > The U.S., with only five per cent of the world’s population, provides more than 70 per cent of all the plasma used to make plasma therapies for the whole world. > If you add plasma obtained from Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic — the other countries where compensation is offered — compensated plasma accounts for 89 per cent of all the world’s plasma for plasma therapies. > This is worth emphasizing: There is no country in the world that manages to collect all the plasma needed for plasma therapies using non-compensated plasma collections. Every country in the world that uses plasma therapies depends on compensated plasma collections. https://theconversation.com/not-compensating-canadian-blood-plasma-donors-means-potentially-risky-reliance-on-foreign-plasma-143970 https://theconversation.com/not-compensating-canadian-blood-...

PradeetPatel 3y ago

As long as there's a moral and ethical framework governing it to prevent abuse. An ex-colleague of mine got a kidney transplant in China, most kidneys are from either volunteer donors or prisoners that have given their consent. Although it is not impossible for this type of system to be gamed, having proper governance around it might be a good way forward.