101 East - Singapore kidneys for sale - 24 Sep 08 - Part 1
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101 East looks at the cost of legalising kidney sales in Singapore and discusses the government’s plans to consider a radical plan to legalise kidney sales, in a bid to provide a safe medical environment for the donor and kidney patient.
Singapore kidney patients spend hours every week on costly dialysis treatment while waiting for a transplant
Singapore has the fifth highest number of kidney failures in the world.
Kidney patients face costly dialysis treatments and waits of up to 10 years for a suitable donor. Some desperate patients resort to the black market and pay tens of thousands of dollars for illegal kidney transplants overseas.
Duration : 0:10:59
hopes your whole …
hopes your whole family gets kidney failure and you can go buy as many kidneys as you want
its a common thing …
its a common thing in the philippines
this is a controversy of being a rich and a poor…
Hm, maybe because …
Hm, maybe because kidneys are forcibly taken from “patients” and sold to others.
What’s so …
What’s so controversial about regulating kidney sales? The government already regulates things like egg donation, which I think is more “controversial” than a kidney.
god is watching …
god is watching this will be over soon
How controversial! …
How controversial! Its always the underclass poor that are put at risk and exploited by the ultra rich. Shame!