Countries Where You Can Legally Buy a Kidney or Other Organs

Published on August 28, 2015 at 5:58 am by George Durankiev in Lists

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1. Iran

There is only one country in the world where organ trade is legal to an extent and this country is Iran. There you can legally buy a kidney and for that reason kidney transplants there have no waiting list. However, the market for organs there is strictly regulated and restricted only to natives. This means that a kidney is the only organ you can legally buy and to combat transplant tourism, the authorities have banned any non-Iranian person from being able to access the trade. This means that immigrants, refugees and visiting people cannot buy or sell their kidney or receive them.The government supports this activity fully through their health administration which play an important role in the trade, manifested in matching donors and recipients. There are measures taken to combat corruption or unfair play such as the anonymity of both the donating and receiving side.

Countries Where You Can Legaly Buy a Kidney or Other Organs

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Before asking the important questions, you’d be interested to know that giving away one of your beloved bean-shaped organs would rake in up to four thousand dollars (or the Iranian equivalent of that). For Iran’s economy and average living conditions this is a big sum but for comparison, a black market-bought kidney can bring its former owner an excess of a hundred thousand dollars in certain cases and mostly the reward would be at least tenfold what the health authorities offer. However, it is worth to note that in both cases there is little to none follow-up on the donor’s health; however, low-risk the procedure has become in recent times. If you opt out for the black market option, make sure you don’t end up with a blood-borne disease such as HIV or hepatitis. Even with big sums of money at play, organ donations of the post mortem sort or donating for free still amounts to a significant percentage of the flow of organs in and out of people. Still, currently Iran remains a one of a kind country where you can legally buy a kidney or other organs.