Doors Open for Additional Transplants
According to “Bahrain Tribune”, the kidney transplant of the two Bahrainis is expected to open doors for more such transplants with more people willing to donate their organs or that of deceased relatives. The WHO estimates that approximately 50,000 kidney transplants take place annually around the world. Out of these, a minimum of 15,000 transplants are from live donors. Sources at the SMC told the Tribune that there are about 160 patients who have to undergo dialysis everyday. In addition two new patients are added every week. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Coalition for Organ-Failure Solutions (COFS) have partnered toaddress the situation of transplants in Bahrain and the Gulf region.A spokesperson of the society said: “Organ trafficking is not so much a problem within Bahrain but rather, because of the situation of lack of access to ethical solutions for organ supplies in Bahrain, patients travel abroad as transplant tourists mostly for kidneys. There are too many exploitative practices around the ways that these organs are retrieved for transplant. This is a major human rights concern.”
Doors Open for Additional Transplants
According to “Bahrain Tribune”, the kidney transplant of the two Bahrainis is expected to open doors for more such transplants with more people willing to donate their organs or that of deceased relatives. The WHO estimates that approximately 50,000 kidney transplants take place annually around the world. Out of these, a minimum of 15,000 transplants are from live donors. Sources at the SMC told the Tribune that there are about 160 patients who have to undergo dialysis everyday. In addition two new patients are added every week. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Coalition for Organ-Failure Solutions (COFS) have partnered toaddress the situation of transplants in Bahrain and the Gulf region.A spokesperson of the society said: “Organ trafficking is not so much a problem within Bahrain but rather, because of the situation of lack of access to ethical solutions for organ supplies in Bahrain, patients travel abroad as transplant tourists mostly for kidneys. There are too many exploitative practices around the ways that these organs are retrieved for transplant. This is a major human rights concern.”
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