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| Singapore kidney patients spend hours every week on costly dialysis treatment while waiting for a transplant |
Singapore has the fifth highest number of kidney failures in the world.
Kidney patients face costly dialysis treatments and waits of up to 10 years for a suitable donor. Some desperate patients resort to the black market and pay tens of thousands of dollars for illegal kidney transplants overseas.
But now the Singapore government is considering a radical plan to legalise kidney sales, in a bid to provide a safe medical environment for the donor and kidney patient.
101 East looks at the cost of legalising kidney sales.
Watch the programme online here:
Part one
Part two
This episode of 101 East aired on Thursday, September 25, 2008.
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