the greedy malaysian quitter never do his NS still want to be sabotage king !
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'Putting a dollar value to that is not unethical,' he added, suggesting that the amount would likely be in the tens of thousands of dollars, since it has to last the donor the rest of his life.
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Mr Khaw also drew a distinction between inducement - 'you're poor, I'm rich, I'll give you $1m for your kidney'' - and reimbursement.
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'Putting a dollar value to that is not unethical,' said Mr Khaw (left). -- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN
CHANGES to the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota), expected early next year, will include compensation to those who donate their kidneys to save the lives of people they do not know.
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said this on Sunday when he sought to refine the ethical debate over organ trading to placate those who are against money changing hands for body parts.
Ethicists are against commercialisation, he noted, but even ethicists in the United States, with its 'highly ethical framework',' think altruistic donors should be reimbursed.
'The ethicists have no problems with reimbursing the donor provided that ... he or she is fully informed of the risks, possibility of complications and what will happen to him for the rest of his life,'' said the minister.
Mr Khaw, who was in Manila last week to meet organ donors, said he returned home even more convinced that something had to be done to regulate organ trading, in particular, to cut out the middlemen.
The donors he met had no clue what they were getting themselves into.
The Filippinos he met had been 'shortchanged', he said, with just $3,000 to $4,000 paid to them for a kidney.
'We cannot leave this problem to the black market,' said Mr Khaw, at the opening of Woodlands polyclinic on Sunday.
'Putting a dollar value to that is not unethical,' he added, suggesting that the amount would likely be in the tens of thousands of dollars, since it has to last the donor the rest of his life.
His remarks are a sea change from his earlier stance a few months ago which seemed to preclude any kind of organ trading whatsoever.
But Mr Khaw has been gradually shifting his stance since, as debate grew following a high-profile court case involving retailer Tan Wee Tsung's attempt to buy a kidney fron an Indonesian.
Mr Khaw also drew a distinction between inducement - 'you're poor, I'm rich, I'll give you $1m for your kidney'' - and reimbursement.
'I think if we stick to the reimbursement side of the equation, we'll remain ethical.
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'Putting a dollar value to that is not unethical,' he added, suggesting that the amount would likely be in the tens of thousands of dollars, since it has to last the donor the rest of his life.
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Mr Khaw also drew a distinction between inducement - 'you're poor, I'm rich, I'll give you $1m for your kidney'' - and reimbursement.
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'Putting a dollar value to that is not unethical,' said Mr Khaw (left). -- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN
CHANGES to the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota), expected early next year, will include compensation to those who donate their kidneys to save the lives of people they do not know.
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said this on Sunday when he sought to refine the ethical debate over organ trading to placate those who are against money changing hands for body parts.
Ethicists are against commercialisation, he noted, but even ethicists in the United States, with its 'highly ethical framework',' think altruistic donors should be reimbursed.
'The ethicists have no problems with reimbursing the donor provided that ... he or she is fully informed of the risks, possibility of complications and what will happen to him for the rest of his life,'' said the minister.
Mr Khaw, who was in Manila last week to meet organ donors, said he returned home even more convinced that something had to be done to regulate organ trading, in particular, to cut out the middlemen.
The donors he met had no clue what they were getting themselves into.
The Filippinos he met had been 'shortchanged', he said, with just $3,000 to $4,000 paid to them for a kidney.
'We cannot leave this problem to the black market,' said Mr Khaw, at the opening of Woodlands polyclinic on Sunday.
'Putting a dollar value to that is not unethical,' he added, suggesting that the amount would likely be in the tens of thousands of dollars, since it has to last the donor the rest of his life.
His remarks are a sea change from his earlier stance a few months ago which seemed to preclude any kind of organ trading whatsoever.
But Mr Khaw has been gradually shifting his stance since, as debate grew following a high-profile court case involving retailer Tan Wee Tsung's attempt to buy a kidney fron an Indonesian.
Mr Khaw also drew a distinction between inducement - 'you're poor, I'm rich, I'll give you $1m for your kidney'' - and reimbursement.
'I think if we stick to the reimbursement side of the equation, we'll remain ethical.
