I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Transplant Discussion => Topic started by: livecam on March 15, 2007, 08:38:52 PM
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When I was on dialysis I became interested in the possibility of a foreign transplant. There are so many ways to go about getting one and so much information out there regarding it that I thought I would share some information that came my way earlier today.
I was in the hospital for a little day surgery and got into a conversation with my recovery room nurse. She is from the Philippines and mentioned that her sister who still lives there received a local transplant two years ago. It was a living donor transplant that she paid for out of her own pocket. When I asked what her sister paid for everything my jaw about dropped to the floor with her answer.
The total cost of her sister's living donor kidney transplant was $6,000.00 U.S. dollars. Wow! Medicare here will pay far more than that for just a month of dialysis. Any way you look at it...it is cheap! Frankly, I was expecting the figure to be much higher. Anyway...just a bit of information for those of you who might have wondered what this option might cost.
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i would be worried about how safe it would be, clean etc. one of my doctors teaches in egypt during summers and he told me the conditions are terrible. i do realize some country's are just as good as the states, but i'd have to do a huge amount of research and would worry none the less. i even have concerns about some hospitals here. the price is interesting none the less.
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Why do you have to pay for a kidney across seas?
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My dentist is from Iran, and his family is still there. Just before my last cleaning his father was killed in a car accident and could have been a organ donor, but there were no takers. He said the transplant wait time is nil because so many people die from violence/accidents each day. :(