Organ Trade Summary: Say 'NO' To Organ Trading

Say ‘NO’ to Organ Trading

In course of living a human life, some parts of human body may not be able to work well which can make life difficult to live. To get rid of this situation, organ transplant is needed. Organ transplant experiments in human and animals began in 18th century by some researchers. After lots of failures, successful organ transplant had been performed in the mid of 20th century (“Organ Donation”). When this began as a method of treatment of end stage life, it was very difficult for people to get an organ for transplantation due to less number of supplies than demands. Furthermore, selling and buying of organs are considered illegal which makes it difficult to meet the high demand of organ transplantation. Some people took

When the organ sale started unlawfully by these money lover brokers, it created many socio-economic and health problems. Poor and desperate people are easily exploited and pressurized in selling their organs and in an illegal market. They will never get a fair and worthy price for the organs. Thus buying and selling organs should not only be made illegal but should be completely banned. The tradition of organ trading will create chaos in the society and creates a gap between rich and poor people. On top of this, no good and quality methods of operation will be followed in organ trade in an illegal market. Hence, organ trading should be completely banned as it increases crimes, health problems and socio- economic discrimination.

There is high demand of organ transplantation. More than 100,000 people are in need of organ transplantation according to the U.S. Government Information on Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (Moore). But, there is less supply of organs. The organs are very expensive and valuable to transplant. Robbers murder people for their organs to make money and hence trading organs increases crimes. Moreover, kidnapping cases are more likely to increase. High value of

These drugs have various side effects hence, deteriorating the health of a person slowly. Another news of infection due to organ transplantation came from Chicago, according to a Newsday article, Four transplants people who had received different organ from a donor who was infected with hepatitis C virus and HIV virus were diagnosed with HIV and hepatitis C when they came in the hospital for medical checkup (“HIV”). This was very shattering news for those patients. They might have thought that they were the luckiest person in the planet to get their organ transplanted but it got reversed when they were diagnosed with the life threatening diseases. Even though organ transplantation from diseased person is a very rare case in US, in case it happens question raises “Is it worth getting organ transplanted?” In case of illegal organ transplantation, not all medical practioners describes the transplanters about the effect of the transplantation in greed of losing the money. Additionally, due to lack of knowledge and proper care post the surgery, the receiver and donor will further discover some other medical problems. Moreover, legalization will enable traffickers and such doctors to move their operations globally taking advantage of legal loopholes and thus spreading