The Australian Federal Government is to trial a scheme to pay employees
wanting to donate an organ a six-week salary on the minimum wage. Under the scheme,
workers will be paid up to $606 per week for six weeks to help ease the burden
of medical costs.
A part of the
press release acknowledges donor risk "Because the procedure to transplant
an organ is not without risk to the donor, we want to ensure they are assisted
during the recovery period after surgery."
Patients faced
with the diagnosis of life-threatening diseases such as that of the liver, kidney,
lung may have to consider the seriousness of having an organ transplant, which
can be a definitive cure for many acquired and genetic diseases. This doesn’t
come without risk and there is the anxiety of waiting for a donor organ, the
risks associated with the transplant operation, and the chance that the
transplant procedure will not achieve the desired result.
The donor must also consider both the negative psychological and
physical symptoms associated with the procedure (invasive surgery). It is
possible the donors may feel sad, anxious, angry, or resentful after surgery.
Donation may change the relationship you have with the recipient if known to
the donor.
Living donors must
be made aware of the physical and psychological risks involved before they
consent to donate an organ.
Living donation is
major surgery. All complications of major surgery apply. These include:
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Pain
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Infection at the incision site
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Incisional hernia
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Pneumonia
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Blood clots
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Hemorrhaging
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Potential need for blood transfusions
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Side effects associated with allergic reactions to the
anesthesia
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Even death
Long-term organ specific donor complications (kidney)
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Hypertension
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Kidney failure
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Proteinuria
Liver
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Bile leakage
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Hyperbilirubinemia
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Small bowel obstruction
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Biliary stricture
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Portal vein thrombosis
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Pulmonary embolish
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Intra abdominal bleeding
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