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Why Children should be the first on organ transplant lists to save their lives?
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∙ 11y ago
In some cases children are given higher priority over adults when waiting for organs. There are many reasons for this: one of the main ones is that a child's health tends to be far less stable than an adult's, even when they are both dying from the same stage of the same disease - children can deteriorate very quickly, and are not always able to articulate how exactly they feel ill, which can slow down the process of diagnoses. These situations are complex and very risky to the child involved.
Secondly, being very ill in childhood will impact a lot subsequently throughout their life - generally these children will have reduced rates of growth and development compared to healthy children, and these children do not always catch up after they have been transplanted. In that respect, it is worthwhile attempting to minimise the impact of being ill on their growth and development. (Adults do not have this problem. )
These are two pretty compelling medical reasons why children should be first, however there are also ethical reasons, such as whether it would be right to put the health of an adult (who's had a much longer lifespan) ahead of the health of a child (who has not had the privilege of a long life).
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