Safe and ethical living kidney donation in Qatar:a national health system's approach

Safe and ethical living kidney donation in Qatar:a national health system's approach

Asim, Muhammad
Al-Maslamani, Yousuf
Al-Maliki, Hassan

2017/07/00

English

20170700

The increasing incidence of end-stage kidney disease in Qatar has led to growing demand for donor kidneys. The deceased donor kidney program has yet to achieve its full potential

hence, living kidney donation has been widely adopted as an appropriate alternative. The reliance on living kidney donors however, raises a number of social, ethical, and legal concerns surrounding informed consent, voluntarism, psychosocial evaluation, perioperative care, and long-term follow-up of living kidney donors. Many of these concerns become heightened in a multicultural, multilingual society within a Gulf country such as Qatar. This article provides an insight into the challenges that living kidney donation poses in a multiethnic society with significant socioeconomic divides. It also discusses the remedial measures that the Qatari government, healthcare authorities, and transplant community have adopted to address these issues.

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kidneys--[pri];living donors--[pri];organ donation--[pri]

cultural pluralism;health care delivery;informed consent;justice;kidney diseases;motivation;organ transplantation;policy making;professional ethics;remuneration;risk;selection for treatment;socioeconomic factors

Qatar--[pri]

Qatar Medical Journal2017 July 25; 17(2):3:9 p.

Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0. Copyright © 2017 Asim, Al-Maslamani, Al-Malki, licensee HBKU Press.

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