You’re kidney me

Photo by Wm Jas

I read in one of our fine media out­lets, I can’t remem­ber which, that the Health Min­is­ter recently said some­thing to the effect of mon­e­tar­ily moti­vated organ dona­tions being a def­i­nite no no.

When I searched for it, not only could I not find the quote, I read that the same said Min­is­ter “has not rejected the idea of legal­is­ing organ trad­ing in Sin­ga­pore but he said it must be stud­ied more carefully”.

U-Turn or see saw or what­ever, here’s the thing: It is ille­gal at the moment, and I wouldn’t be sur­prised if there have been many more cases of organ trad­ing here which have gone unde­tected, and with that, a bur­geon­ing black mar­ket involv­ing and, in my pos­si­bly ill-informed but hum­ble opin­ion, unfairly enrich­ing dodgy middlemen.

Again, in my pos­si­bly ill-informed but hum­ble opin­ion, if an organ trad­ing legal frame­work could be put in place, such con­tracts would come under the scrutiny of the courts, and with that, the pos­si­bil­ity of rec­ti­fy­ing unfair con­tracts. It fol­lows that both donor and recip­i­ent stand to gain from this.

More impor­tantly, donors who are finan­cially moti­vated (i.e. poor) to trade their organs for cash can pos­si­bly be pro­tected by this frame­work to ensure that their needs, finan­cial and med­ical, are met with due care.

Even more impor­tantly, that takes out the fucker who asks for $300,000 to look for a donor for you when the donor is only get­ting $27,000.

Have a good and care­ful study, Mr Min­is­ter, and do some­thing right.

Link: Yawn­ing Bread

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