Can you donate organs for money

Doctors must take out the tissue within 24 hours after death. But tissue banks can store the tissue for a long time. Doctors use these to restore sight, cover burns, repair hearts, replace veins, and mend damaged connective tissue and cartilage. These are difficult surgeries. They call them vascularized composite allograft VCA organ transplants. Anti-rejection drugs help the people who receive them to keep the transplants. Your body makes blood and platelets. You replace these repeatedly throughout your life.

This means that you can donate blood and platelets more than once. Blood had different lifesaving uses. Doctors can use it whole or they can separate it into packed red cells, plasma, and platelets.

It only takes about 10 minutes to collect one pint of blood. The entire process takes about an hour because they need to test and screen your blood. Doctors separate platelets from the rest of the blood.

Then they return the blood to you. Your body will replace the missing platelets in a few hours. One donor can save 8 lives and enhance the lives of 75 more.

What Can Be Donated. What organs can I donate after I die? In , doctors performed over 85, corneal transplants. The cornea is the clear part of the eye over the iris and pupil. In the U. Still, Manns and his team wanted to find out if offering financial incentives would save money over the current system of keeping people on kidney dialysis for years. They compared cost data from a cohort of kidney patients identified in and followed them for three years.

Last year, more than 4, people in the U. Meanwhile, the number of kidney donors has fallen steadily for the past several years, to 13, in , despite the growing need, figures show. In Canada, the issue is the same: Wait lists of two to three years, and about 30 percent of patients die while waiting, Manns said. Related: Opinion: Why selling kidneys won't work.

When countries with better record of regulation acknowledge that with financial motivation the system can never be adequately regulated to prevent exploitation of the poor, it is laughable that India would think of bringing in financial rewards for organ donation. Can Mamata go national? Successful coalitions at the Centre have been usually headed by leaders with weak power bases.

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