Zahl der Organspender stark gestiegen
ORF – Die Zahl der Organspender ist in Niederösterreich so hoch wie noch nie: 73 Spender wurden im Jahr 2009 in Niederösterreich gemeldet, das sind dreimal so viele wie im Jahr 2007. 14 Niederösterreicher warten derzeit auf ein Herz, 13 auf eine Leber, jeweils fünf auf einen Lunge oder Bauchspeicheldrüse. 118 Patienten warten auf eine Niere. Dementsprechend lang ist auch die Wartezeit für eine Niere: 38 Monate. Bei den anderen Organen beträgt diese durchschnittlich ein halbes Jahr. Generell werden in NÖ nur Organe von hirntoten Patienten entnommen, mit Ausnahme bei der Niere. Die Chance, das ein Patient nach einer Herz-Transplantation mit dem neuen Herz überlebt, liegt bei 80 Prozent.
International Organs Donations Review, photo by Galina Toktalieva
MEET BAZAAR
Harvesting human organs for sale! The idea suggests the lurid world of horror movies and 19th-century graverobbers.Millions of people suffer from kidney disease, but in 2007 there were just 64,606 kidney-transplant operations in the entire world.To combat yet another shortfall, some doctors are routinely removing pieces of tissue from deceased patients for transplant without their, or their families’, prior consent. And the practice is perfectly legal.
Organs can be taken from deceased donors only after they have been declared dead, but where is the line between life and death? Philosophers have been debating the dividing line between baldness and nonbaldness for over 2,000 years, so there is little hope that the dividing line between life and death will ever be agreed upon. Indeed, the great paradox of deceased donation is that we must draw the line between life and death precisely where we cannot be sure of the answer, because the line must lie where the donor is dead but the donor’s organs are not.
Organ sales from poor Indian, Thai and Philippine donors? Transplant tourism? It’s all part of the growing black market in transplants. Already, the black market may account for 5% to 10% of transplants world-wide. If organ sales are voluntary, it’s hard to fault either the buyer or the seller. But as long as the market remains underground the donors may not receive adequate postoperative care, and that puts a black mark on all proposals to legalize financial compensation. (From WS Journal)
KOSOVO ORGAN TRAFFICKING
AP-The office of Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor says he has presented a European envoy with new findings about the alleged removal of organs from Serbs kidnapped during the Kosovo war.
Serbian officials say hundreds of Kosovo Serbs were kidnapped by ethnic Albanian rebels during the 1998-99 war. They claim the rebels killed some of them, removed their organs and sold them on the black market. Kosovo officials deny the allegations. The war in Kosovo ended after NATO intervened to halt Serbia’s crackdown. Kosovo declared independence last year.
ISRAEL HARVESTED ORGANS WITHOUT CONSENT
AP-JERUSALEM – Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The Channel 2 reports that in the 1990s, forensic specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
EXECUTED CHINESE PRISONERS
DAILY MAIL- The bodies of executed Chinese prisoners are being used in a ghoulish exhibition of ‘plastinated’ corpses.
The controversial event is organised by US-based Premier Exhibitions, which insists all the cadavers came from individuals who chose to donate their bodies to medical science.
But Dr Nicholl, a consultant at Birmingham City Hospital, says he is convinced the body parts – preserved in polymer – come from executed Chinese prisoners or victims of torture.
The Chinese suppliers had previously been accused of using the bodies of executed prisoners for commercial purposes.
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