Organ donation in the Philippines: should the dead do more.
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2014-07
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This paper asks whether the Philippines should focus on
ways of dealing with end-stage renal disease by getting more
transplantable kidneys from the dead. Would it be more ethical
to put the burden to donate on the dead (who have already lost
their chance to consent) than on the living (who can consent)?
Given the risks involved in undergoing nephrectomy and the lack
of benefits arising from the procedure to donors, the dead should
be the first to put their kidneys on the line. In the Philippines,
unfortunately, living donors have had to bear the greater burden
in this regard. Starting with a brief account of developments
surrounding the impact of the Declaration of Istanbul on the
situation in the Philippines as well as in other countries, the
paper examines what the living have been expected to do, what
they have actually done, and what lessons the experience with
living donors offers for the understanding of cadaver transplants.
The paper then looks at possible ways of increasing the sources
of kidneys for transplantation and asks if these ways could be
implemented successfully and ethically in the Philippines.
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CASTRO LEOnARDO D DE. Organ donation in the Philippines: should the dead do more. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. 2014 Jul-Sept; 11 (3): 143-150.