Organ transplants are a serious matter all around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people a day are constantly waiting for organ transplants. Many of those people will end up dying on that waiting list due to the lack of supply. This is because of the massive global organ shortage that is available for transplants. The huge gap between supply and demand has caused many people to look elsewhere for their organ transplants, even if it is through the black market. This type of problem happened in many countries, including Israel. Israel had a tough time with organ donations in particular due to many peoples ' religious beliefs. This made the supply even lower than usual. Many people in Israel were seeking out organs through the black market
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The list of waiting for a transplant rises by 10% to 20% every year. This is why organ trafficking was common in Israel before the law was passed. People would buy and sell kidneys, livers and other organs to each other. These patients would also often travel abroad in search for organs. Insurance companies were also known for paying people from Israel to go to other countries for their transplants. After the new law was passed, organ trafficking was banned. Israelis were less likely to even try to get organs abroad after the new law due to insurance companies no longer being able to reimburse any money. On top of that, in 2010 a new compensation program began where donors were now allowed to accept monetary compensation through the government for money losses due to the lengthy process of donation. The new law also gave benefits to the living donors like 40 days of wages lost and up to 5 years of compensation after the transplant for things like medical and life insurance, disability insurance, physcological treatment sessions a weeklong vacation and even transportation costs. One major part of the new law was that they decided to give certain …show more content…
This new policy was called "don 't give, don 't get." This law, giving priority to people with donor cards, helped to raise the number of people registering and also raise the consent rate for donation by donor 's next of kin. Another way to get more Israelis on board to get an organ donor card was through the Halachic Organ Donor Society who would try to teach people that it is okay to support organ donation in a brain stem death case. This society recruited hundreds of rabbis to get their donor cards which led to thousands of Jews being more accepting around the world and increasing the number of signed donor cards. Israel raised its number of transplants in 2011 about 68 percent higher than the year before. From deceased donors: there were 2.37 times more kidney transplants, 2.15 times more liver transplants and 2.09 times more heart transplants in 2011 than in 2010. There was also an increase to 55% of families consenting to organ donation in the case of brain death in 2011. The
The list of waiting for a transplant rises by 10% to 20% every year. This is why organ trafficking was common in Israel before the law was passed. People would buy and sell kidneys, livers and other organs to each other. These patients would also often travel abroad in search for organs. Insurance companies were also known for paying people from Israel to go to other countries for their transplants. After the new law was passed, organ trafficking was banned. Israelis were less likely to even try to get organs abroad after the new law due to insurance companies no longer being able to reimburse any money. On top of that, in 2010 a new compensation program began where donors were now allowed to accept monetary compensation through the government for money losses due to the lengthy process of donation. The new law also gave benefits to the living donors like 40 days of wages lost and up to 5 years of compensation after the transplant for things like medical and life insurance, disability insurance, physcological treatment sessions a weeklong vacation and even transportation costs. One major part of the new law was that they decided to give certain …show more content…
This new policy was called "don 't give, don 't get." This law, giving priority to people with donor cards, helped to raise the number of people registering and also raise the consent rate for donation by donor 's next of kin. Another way to get more Israelis on board to get an organ donor card was through the Halachic Organ Donor Society who would try to teach people that it is okay to support organ donation in a brain stem death case. This society recruited hundreds of rabbis to get their donor cards which led to thousands of Jews being more accepting around the world and increasing the number of signed donor cards. Israel raised its number of transplants in 2011 about 68 percent higher than the year before. From deceased donors: there were 2.37 times more kidney transplants, 2.15 times more liver transplants and 2.09 times more heart transplants in 2011 than in 2010. There was also an increase to 55% of families consenting to organ donation in the case of brain death in 2011. The