Organ Transplant China

The number of people awaiting an organ transplant is increasing every year. Unfortunately, the number of transplants performed is at a different pace. Too many people are dying on waiting lists. Despite all the efforts of many organizations and well-meaning health professionals people die waiting. The systems are in place are simply not doing the job and need to be rethought. It is obvious that organs are available (we will all die one day), but they just are not making their way through our health care system for patients who need them.

Statistics from UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) show that the United States only in 2007 more than 6,000 lives while on the waiting list for an organ. The number of people on the waiting list is currently over 100,000. The vast majority of them are waiting for a kidney with the liver and heart is a distant second and third. The problem lies in the fact that waiting lists are growing rapidly as the size the number of organ donations. So what do we do about spreading the word to the masses that we should register for organ donation?

Is it just a lack of awareness or are there other reasons why we believe it is not something we want to do? Maybe if I signed up to donate my organs and they know what my personal doctor or the emergency room will not try so hard to save my life? Or maybe I think it is against my religion. What if I am too old and my health is not very good anyway, who wants my organs? The rich and famous always move at the head of the list, so why should I help?

Of course, all these concerns can be answered. Your doctor and those of any emergency room are there to save you, and are not affected by the transplant system. Organ donation is consistent with the beliefs of most religions. Age has little to do with the viability of your organs for transplantation and only doctors at the time of your death can determine their relevance. The rich and famous are not given priority and are not treated differently from anyone else. In fact UNOS takes all celebrity transplants to an internal audit to ensure they meet the guidelines of fairness.

Another misconception about organ transplants is that most recipients survive only a few years. According to Donate Life America, the long-term survival is becoming increasingly frequent. For example, a number of kidney recipients live 30 years or more after transplantation. Other organ recipients have survived more than 20 years after transplantation. As science and technology improves these figures will only get better and better.

A disturbing trend is the emergence of transplant tourism bodies. The globalization of medical technology and surgical increased the capacity of countries in the world to perform organ transplants. The by-product of what has been the growth of patients who travel abroad for transplantation, bypassing the waiting lists at home. One can hardly blame them, but the reality is that many of organ donors in the country of destination are a little less willing. In 2007 it was estimated by the World Health Organization that organ trafficking accounts for 5-10% of renal transplantation performed annually worldwide. A commercial transaction without question.

The market is just meeting a need or there are serious ethical questions regarding the exploitation of the poor who try to take care of their families and patients who are just desperate for a cure? So who owns our bodies? Is it ethical or legal system to allow even the poor vulnerable to selling their organs to save a life? Many of these surgeries are still long as the free market is real, they will continue.

Even more disturbing are the stories of organ stealing donors do not want. Doubtless there are lot of "urban legend" here. However, it appears that th.