PAPee: $ No Enuff? Sell Your Organs Loh!

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ALTHOUGH calls have been made to allow foreigners to be reimbursed for organ donations, the Health Minister said yesterday that the focus will first be on Singaporeans.
'My interest is Singaporean patients and making sure that we can increase the transplant rate in an...ethically compatible manner,' said Mr Khaw Boon Wan.
Earlier this month, he announced the law will be changed to allow people who donate their kidneys to get reimbursement from the recipient or a voluntary organisation.
The proposal has cleared a national committee on medical ethics, paving the way for a change in legislation to be put before Parliament early next year.
The committee has recommended that reimbursement start with citizens and permanent residents who donate their organs.
Madam Halimah Yacob, who chairs the Government Parliamentary Committee on Health, suggested that the Health Ministry could tie up with hospitals overseas to ensure foreign donors are cared for.
Mr Khaw said public consultations on the organ-donation rules will begin after the ministry makes draft amendments to the law, which are currently under way.
JESSICA JAGANATHAN

 

[Naruto777]

Hi, can you clarify some things for me which is rather vague to me:-

1) If a Singaporean dies without signing the organ donation opt out form, does it mean the Hospital have the right to sell it for money and keep it in its coffers??

2) If a Singaporean sign the organ donation opt out form, they will be last to be a recipient in the event of an accident or crisis??

Thanks.