A Filipino documentary on TV before featured kidney selling in the Philippines. The documentary created a stir and public debate since it is a social issue that is link primarily to poverty. The documentary discussed how foreign nationals exploited the poverty of the Filipinos by offering them big amount of money in exchange for their kidneys. People may question it but I really believed that the documentary is an eye opener to everyone including the DOH.
Just recently the Department of Health (DOH) said with finality that they will not anymore give consideration to foreign nationals when it comes to organ donation. The approval of Administrative Order No. 124 or the revised national policy on living non related donors and transplantation prohibit organ donations to foreigners.
I congratulate the DOH for the job well done. I hope that this will be an end to organ transplant exploitation.
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