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The Country Where Selling Your Organs Is Legit
Iran...
Sigrid Fry-Revere: Iran has the only legal, government-supported, compensation-based organ-donation system in the world, and it has a lot to offer. Thirty years ago, they gave up on the (full) market approach, but they are still the only place where they compensate donors.
OZY: How are donors paid?
SFR: It’s regulated by district. There’s a very regulated market in Tehran, which isn’t working well. The nonprofits in charge of making the matches between donors and recipients see themselves as recipient advocates. That means they want the lowest price possible, which is tough for people who are stuck in debtors’ prisons. I saw a lot of exploitation. We interviewed 200 people on one trip and one donor told me he needed six million toman, which is why he was donating. But the nonprofit took him to meet the recipient and his family, and they were crying. “How can I say no when they do that to me?” he told me. He felt trapped. Then, when he went to pick up his check after the operation, he was given no more than three million, where other people in line were receiving up to 10 million.
OZY: Who pays the donors?
SFR: The national government provides donors a year of health insurance, and the rest comes from a few places. Say, a million toman from the government and the rest would be negotiated — in part from charity and in part from the recipient. The part I think is kind of cool is that if you donate your kidney, you don’t have to do the required national military service.
http://www.ozy.com/pov/the-country-where-selling-your-organs-is-legit/70282?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06282016&variable=132f200e9db94ef1708c396f1666a0f4
OZY: How are donors paid?
SFR: It’s regulated by district. There’s a very regulated market in Tehran, which isn’t working well. The nonprofits in charge of making the matches between donors and recipients see themselves as recipient advocates. That means they want the lowest price possible, which is tough for people who are stuck in debtors’ prisons. I saw a lot of exploitation. We interviewed 200 people on one trip and one donor told me he needed six million toman, which is why he was donating. But the nonprofit took him to meet the recipient and his family, and they were crying. “How can I say no when they do that to me?” he told me. He felt trapped. Then, when he went to pick up his check after the operation, he was given no more than three million, where other people in line were receiving up to 10 million.
OZY: Who pays the donors?
SFR: The national government provides donors a year of health insurance, and the rest comes from a few places. Say, a million toman from the government and the rest would be negotiated — in part from charity and in part from the recipient. The part I think is kind of cool is that if you donate your kidney, you don’t have to do the required national military service.
http://www.ozy.com/pov/the-country-where-selling-your-organs-is-legit/70282?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06282016&variable=132f200e9db94ef1708c396f1666a0f4
