The Between The Supply And Demand Of Tissues And Organ Donors

The need of human organs for transplantation increases every single day and every passing month. Thousands of people are on the waiting list hoping for a chance at a new life. Unfortunately, the supply of available organs through organ donations is not able to provide for the growing demand of organs. According to a research conducted by the Hasting Center, “there are close to 100,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney, heart, liver, lung, and intestines, the pressure to find ways to increase their supply is enormous (Capland, 2014, p. 214). The shortage of human organs is leading people to participate in unethical acts. The pressure of finding available organs has resulted in healthcare professional and

A major, worldwide public health issue exists that many, if not most, people are either unaware of or, at best, paid little heed to. It is the issue of organ donations. Many thousands of people in countless countries suffer from major health issues that require these people receive organ transplants. If they do not receive these transplants, they will die from organ failure (Cohen, Bistritz, & Ashkenazi, 2015; Kennedy, 1979). The problem is that there are only a relatively few number of organs available for transplant compared to the number of people who need transplants (Jahromi, Fry-Revere, & Bastani, 2015).

Central Idea: Becoming an organ donor gives transplant recipients the gift of life and there are unnecessary barriers and misconceptions keeping people from becoming donors.

The shortage of organ transplants has been an ongoing crisis for years; the growing list of patients awaiting transplants has no end in sight, and the number of people dying while they waste away on the waiting list is not going to go down unless something changes.Society has turned away from alternatives to our archaic organ donation program, but there are other options available.The transplant community and society as a whole need to step back and rethink--to adopt a more open-minded views on organs as a resource in order to save lives and make meaningful changes to the national transplant program.

The author feels guilty that she is also one among those scared people who never have checked the organ donation box or filled out the organ and tissue donor card. She realizes it is because people like her have irrational fear such as a phobia that doctors will harvest their organs, or pluck their eyes or kidneys without their knowledge, even before they were through with them.

The allocation of scarce resources is an ongoing issue in healthcare today. The scarcity of many specific interventions include beds in the intensive care unit, donor organs, and vaccines during a pandemic influenza are widely acknowledged as an extensive issue in healthcare ethics. The allocation of scarce resources is the determination of how to equally and fairly use scarce medical resources available in a healthcare environment. This paper will focus on donor organs for transplantation and the ethical dilemmas associated with donation/transplantation. Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation in today’s world (Saidi, R., & Kenan, S., 2014). Ethical principles and regulation requirements often overlap.

Transplantation in Canada is growing. Over the past decade, organ transplants have increased by 44 percent in Canada. The need for transplants continues to exceed the supply of organs and Canada’s organ donation rate is unacceptably low. CNA believe that a national comprehensive integrated approach is needed to improve organ donor rates in Canada. CNA made the following recommendations ; increase education of health professionals to ensure that they have a good knowledge and understanding of: the benefits of organ transplantation and the suitability of organs for donation or referral, the process to be followed within the particular institution; techniques to manage the sensitivities cultural, religious and ethical components of communicating

“There is a need to instil in people's hearts, especially in the hearts of the young, a genuine and deep appreciation of the need for brotherly love, a love that can find expression in the decision to become an organ donor.” Pope John Paul II stated in the Address to International Congress on Transplants. In a culture of death and self-centeredness it is important to prompt the youth to consider becoming an organ donor. The number of people in need of a transplant is growing quickly, and already is at a large rate. Eighteen people will die each day waiting for an organ transplant; more must be done to help these people, yet it must be within the standards of medical ethics.

By offering money, more individuals would readily give up their organs. This would lead to a surplus of organs for transplants. However, an increase in the price of organs would limit those who could afford surgeries. Although selling organs benefits the donor, the patients suffer from money concerns in addition to their original medical issues. One item frequently reveals the corruption of society: money. The process of organ transplants should hold the ultimate aim of saving lives, not the selfish bribe of gaining wealth. Other methods, such as providing life or health insurance, would be less materialistic options for encouraging organ donation. Currently, organ donation only offers the donor a personal feeling of well-being. Jennifer Bard discusses the corruption after researching about organ transplants at the Texas Tech University School of Law. Bard analyzes,“... it has so far been prohibited to offer any financial incentive for registering as a donor or to families of individuals who choose to allow donation after death… no solution to the reluctance of Americans to donate can work until this reluctance is taken seriously and the families who choose not to donate organs are listened to with respect” (121-122). Patients face drastic amounts of debt from medical bills. Rather than exchanging money for organs, help should be offered to ailing patients. Authors from the

Organ donations have encountered organ donor, and as a result, organ supply decreases. Over the years, organ donation challenges and demands increase inversely in proportion to the organ shortages. The primary mission of donor’s organizations is to save as many terminally ill recipients at the end stages of their lives as possible with an end goal of giving these recipients a normal a life span. The significance of organ donation is to restore an ailing person’s quality of life. The ongoing issue of organ shortages may be a symptom of the current program that present an idealistic portrait of how these issues may be resolved. As a result, the mission and ultimate goal of organizations such as UNOS and Donate Life America, among others, is to obtain viable organs for their patients and to promote; education, empower altruism and establish quality ethics, and act as a resource for existing and potential donors.

Generally, there are more patients on a waiting list for organs than there are organ donors, which cause a vast shortage in organ donation (Bilgel, 2012). In 2014 in Wales, there were 220 patients on the transplant waiting list, but deceased donor transplants only had 129 (NHS, 2016). It is truly a significant disparity. Thus, a new opt-out organ donation was enacted in Human Transplantation Act of Wales in 2013 to solve this issue, which was implemented in 2015. The opt-out organ donation is defined as those aged 18 or over who choose to do nothing, and have lived in Wales for more than 12 months, will be regarded as having consented to organ donation. What’s more, this system is a soft one means where relatives' views are sought, although

I want my audience to accept the fact that there is a problem of organ shortage that needs to be resolved. I also want my audience to understand that people need certain type of encouragement and at the time that we are living, monetary compensation will make a difference. A lot of people will step forward into organ donation if there is compensation in

In the United States today, people lose their lives to many different causes. Though this is tragic, there are also a large group of people who could benefit from these deaths; and those people are people in need of an organ transplant. Although a sudden or tragic death can be heart breaking to a family, they could feel some relief by using their loved ones' organs to save the lives of many others. This act of kindness, though, can only be done with consent of both the victim and the family; making the donation of organs happen much less than is needed. The need for organs is growing every day, but the amount provided just is not keeping up. Because of the great lack of organ donors, the constant need for organs,

This paper will examine the dynamics of organ donation and the lack of education leading to a worldwide shortage of organs. Examining the legal, medical, religious and misinformation of the general public, and this effect on needless deaths. Identifying the main reasons people claim for not being organ donors, along with the educational ideations that can increase organ donation across the board. Societal pressures can cause herd mentality among peer groups, positive media has the ability to utilize this herd mentality to educate peer groups with a positive message of organ donation to save lives.

Organ donation should not be compulsory in Australia because organ donation is an important choice that an individual depending upon their cultural and religious beliefs. It should remain a personal choice and governments should not impose compulsory donations of organs which would undermine a person’s free