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The sale of kidneys should be legalized to meet increasing demand, two American doctors suggest in an article in the journal Kidney International.
They noted that efforts to expand the organ-donor pool are failing and that black-market sales in organs are booming, BBC News reported.
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Eli Friedman, a kidney specialist at the State University of New York, and Amy Friedman, a transplant specialist at Yale University, wrote: "Strategies to expand the donor pool -- public relations campaigns -- have been mainly unsuccessful.
"Although illegal in most nations, and viewed as unethical by professional medical organizations, the voluntary sale of purchased donor kidneys now accounts for thousands of black-market transplants," the wrote.
The suggestion was dismissed by Dr. Michael Wilks, chairman of the British Medical Association's ethics committee.
"It is exploitive, particularly for the third world, if you had an unfettered global market, and what is more it is not necessary," he told BBC News.
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