Global realities of organ transplant tourism: a case study of kidney trade in Kasiglahan Village I, Rodriguez, Rizal.

Abstract

and can be bought with the right amount of money, the kidney organ is no exception. Because of the organ shortage, compensating donors for their organ was seen as the solution for the inadequacy. Cases of kidney trade are no longer a hidden fact. The problem and issues of commercializing kidney is now recognized worldwide. Organ transplant tourism is one of the manners where the trade of organs is perpetuated. A pattern that can be observed is that vendors of kidney organ are usually poor people from Third World Countries while patients are from rich countries. The researcher was able to collect information that will support this claim. The kidney trade has flourished in many parts of the world and many people engaged in this lucrative business. In the Philippines, many public and private institutions and even syndicates have been collaborating to recruit donors from impoverished communities and remote areas in different provinces in the country. The researcher studied the experiences and the conditions of past kidney donors/ sellers in one of the kidney zones in the Philippines- Kasiglahan Village I in Rodriguez, Rizal.