Reading Time: 5 minutesOrgan trading is illegal In 2008, prominent businessman Tang Wee Sung, then owner of the CK Tang departmental store was jailed for a day and fined $17,000 for trying to purchase a kidney. Organ trading is illegal in Singapore and banned by the Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA). Despite various amendments to the law, organ […]
Living Organ Donation in Singapore
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat do you need to know if you want to donate your organ? Compared to other countries, Singapore has a fairly low combined organ transplant rate Last year, the Ministry of Health revealed that the national public education campaign on organ donation, “Live On” – which was first launched in 2008 – appeared to have […]
Did you know? Organ donation is compulsory for Singaporeans and PRs!
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf you suffer from kidney failure, and you need a new kidney, you may need to wait nearly a decade before you can get a donor. Based on statistics released by the Ministry of Health in 2016, while the number of people on the waiting list for a kidney transplant has decreased to 276 in […]