Comments on: In the Kidney Trade: Seller Beware http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/blog/2009/07/01/in-the-kidney-trade-seller-beware/ Because just enough isn't good enough Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:23:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Khawar http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/blog/2009/07/01/in-the-kidney-trade-seller-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-33741 Khawar Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:11:53 +0000 http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/blog/?p=1145#comment-33741 The Kidney selling in Pakistani milieu has been documented by this paper from Moazzam etal and they have given a very apt picture of the real scenarios. The Kidney market has made the kidney sellers worst off and has done no good to their existing socio-economic situations rather it has worsened it. The Ordinance enacted by the Government to curb the practice and inhibit the mushroom growth of the transplant centres catering to the Medical tourists from across the World has still to take effect and hopefully it would be more than a mere "moral victory". In order to effectively curb this practice the underlying causes that prompt these poor laborers to sell thier kidney should be addresed, lack of education, abject poverty and coercion are the factors that prompt such extreme decisions and the decsions to sell kidney are not autonomous. The Kidney selling in Pakistani milieu has been documented by this paper from Moazzam etal and they have given a very apt picture of the real scenarios. The Kidney market has made the kidney sellers worst off and has done no good to their existing socio-economic situations rather it has worsened it.

The Ordinance enacted by the Government to curb the practice and inhibit the mushroom growth of the transplant centres catering to the Medical tourists from across the World has still to take effect and hopefully it would be more than a mere “moral victory”.

In order to effectively curb this practice the underlying causes that prompt these poor laborers to sell thier kidney should be addresed, lack of education, abject poverty and coercion are the factors that prompt such extreme decisions and the decsions to sell kidney are not autonomous.

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