Category: Organ Donation

In 1954, the first successful transplant in a human was performed (Prabhu, 2019). It was a kidney that was given from one twin to another (Prabhu, 2019). Since then, technology has branched to include lots of different procedures. With the advancement of technology comes the question of what is ethical and what is unethical. One…

Introduction The notion behind organ transplantation is rather simple, remove a healthy organ from a donor, place that organ into a recipient via surgery, connect important tissues, valves and allow the recipient another chance at life (Brezina, 2010). However, it is not that simple in reality, thousands of people wait years at a chance of…

1. Background Hong Kong organ transplants are the same as in other countries and regions, with thousands of people waiting every day for organ transplants. Living death and donation of the body are the main ways of organ donation. Unlike other countries and regions, there is a lack of voluntary living donations in Hong Kong,…

Michael Sandel introduces to readers in the beginning of his book: Justice: Whats the Right Thing to Do? that there are three approaches in thinking about justice in order to gear America towards a politics of the common good. The first of which is maximizing welfare. He compares the idea of maximizing welfare to a…

Recently, the English organ donation law has changed to an opt-out system on 20th May 2020. This means that all adults are automatically presumed to consent to be a registered organ donor unless they choose to state otherwise, and they do not wish to donate. However, there are excluded groups, where the opt out system…

To live day by day is a blessing in itself. To go by worry free about your health is a luxury many take for granted, including myself. I never think about whether my lungs are okay, can my bones take another backpacking trip; will my heart give out on me if I try to run…

Today, I am going to talk about why I think that every country should adopt the opt out organ donation system. I am going to talk 4 different parts to this topic. Firstly, I am going to describe the difference an opt in and opt out system. An opt out system is when organ donation…

The Online Organ Donation Management System (OODMS) is developed mainly for general hospitals (GH), clinics and other health centers to manage the donor registration and user maintenance. The public can retrieve information about organ donation in this web site. People who interested can register themselves through this system. The application will be processed by the…

Caden is an 11-years old child that should be just learning and enjoying life, but because he was born with a severe form of heart disease he needed a heart transplant. By the time he was getting sicker so an artificial heart was a bridge to get him a heart transplant but after two weeks…

The global human organ shortage, mainly kidney, has led to illegal and unregulated organ markets. According to World Organization health, about 5 to 10 percent of all kidneys transplanted per year are obtained in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America. Therefore, the world faces double tragedy; first, very many patients who die waiting for…