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【社会人文】为了女儿的未来，求求你，买我的
Please, buy my kidney to secure her future
One kidney for sale … Craig Gill and his two-year-old daughter Petal, the reason he is willing to sell an organ, on Bondi Beach yesterday.
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May 6, 2008 The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/please-buy-my-kidney-to-secure-her-future/2008/05/05/1209839554187.html
CRAIG GILL took "less than 30 seconds" to decide that he would sell his kidney to finance ballet lessons and a home deposit for his two-year-old daughter, Petal.
After reading yesterday's Herald on the call by a Canberra specialist to legalise the sale of kidneys in Australia, Mr Gill, 44, called the paper, seeking to place an advertisement for one of his kidneys for $50,000.
"My daughter is my future and I am willing to put my hand up and sell an organ to someone to help her," he said. "A cheque for $50,000 would help her to avoid Sydney's rental crisis when she's older. I don't want my girl out on the street fighting with hundreds of others for somewhere to live.
"If a relative needed a kidney from me, I'd give it to them without a second thought, but when it comes to strangers, I want to be well compensated for it because my priority is my daughter and her future. And I would say most of my friends feel the way I do - we'd do anything to help our kids get a start in life."
The federal minister for Health, Nicola Roxon, ruled out legalising organ sales. And the medical director of Kidney Health Australia, Tim Mathew, said cash for kidneys would be exploitative and unethical, and would never win community support. However, he said giving donors up to $6000 for loss of earnings after surgery should be considered - an idea backed by the Australian Medical Association last night.
"I know there are people out there who desperately need body parts, but for me, commercial trading in organs is unfair, inequitable and goes against everything I believe the Australian culture and Australian health system to be," Dr Mathew said. "I do believe, though, that people should be compensated for the time and effort that goes into donating a kidney."
The suggestion of compensation surprised Gavin Carney, the nephrologist campaigning for commercial kidney trading to help patients who wait years for transplants or even travel to Third World countries to buy organs.
"[Kidney Health Australia] was not supportive of my plan yesterday, but today they want to give donors money," Dr Carney said. "It just proves my point that it is becoming blindingly obvious that we need to put a dollar mark on organ donations to solve this problem. Most people, even though they want to help others, cannot afford to take six weeks off work. Six thousand dollars or $50,000 - it's all a payment and that's what we need to increase organ donation in this country."
But Ms Roxon said: "We know this really could put people at risk of being exploited and we are not going to let this happen."
She said urgent action was needed to boost organ donations. After years of attempts to increase organ donation, numbers have declined in recent years. There were 202 in 2006 but only 198 last year.
A national clinical taskforce has said it should be possible to increase donations by 370 a year. It suggested a campaign to dispel myths about donation, nationally accepted methods to identify potential donors in emergency departments and intensive care units, and a national donation and transplantation authority. 能把此文译成中文吗?,谢谢! 为了保证女儿的未来，请买我的肾脏
不到30 秒钟CRAIG GILL就决定卖掉他的肾脏为两岁的女儿支付芭蕾舞课程和租房定金。
看到昨天悉尼晨锋报上一位堪培拉专家关于在澳洲对出售肾脏立法的呼吁,44岁的Gill先生打电话给报社，要求登个广告以五万澳元出售一个肾脏。
他说:“女儿是我的未来，我愿意登广告卖掉一个器官来资助她。一张5万元支票会帮她避开她长大后悉尼的租房危机。我不想让我的女孩无家可归而和另外几百人竟争一处居室。”
“假如是位亲属需要我的肾脏，我会毫不犹豫地给他们，但对于陌生人，我希望得到适当的补偿，因为我要首先考虑我的女儿和她的未来。我敢说我的朋友们多数和我想的一样，我们将尽一切努力为自己的孩子们提供机会。”
联邦卫生部长Nicola Roxon否定了会对出售器官立法。而澳洲肾脏保健组织的理事Tim Mathew则说买卖肾脏是剥削性质的，不道德的，也决不会受到公众的支持。不过他说给捐献人最多6千澳元以补偿因手术而造成的经济损失应予考虑。这后一主张昨晚得到澳洲医疗协会的支持。
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