101 East - Singapore kidneys for sale - 24 Sep 08 - Part 2

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.

AlJazeera | September 26, 2008

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