The prisoners' dilemma: Should convicted felons have the same access to organ transplants as ordinary citizens

The prisoners' dilemma: Should convicted felons have the same access to organ transplants as ordinary citizens

Introduction

Prisoners are the culprits who have been accused of a certain crime and are sentenced to complete their period in the cell or a prison. However, as normal human beings criminals also face medical issues and the level of their illness could be high or low. A fierce debate has pursued whether the convicted felons should be provided with medical treatments of expensive care or not?

The situation is dealt with the ethical rights of the prisoners and the rest of society. In particular when we deal with medical treatments such as organ transplants a great debate rises specially when concerned with the ethical dilemma concerning this issue because this medical treatment is not completely ethical with ordinary citizens then how felons can be facilitated with such treatments.

Organ transplants are the medical treatment according to which a patient when comes to a state where if organ fails then an organ from another donor is received and transplanted into the body of the patient. The treatment is the most expensive treatment firstly because the donor grabs a large sum for donating an organ of his or her body and making himself or herself dysfunctional. Secondly the scarce availability of donated organs makes to even tougher for the medical staff to find an appropriate organ for the patient.

Discussion

The expensive procedure of the medical treatment makes to a feasible medical treatment to offer it to masses. The medical complications of organ transplant are very expensive too because firstly the receiving patient needs excess of the amount of blood expensive tests are conducted to check whether the donated organ will function with the best of the organs or not and other medical formalities charge the patient a substantial amount.

Another issue which arises with the organ transplant treatment is that it is not considered completely valid for its ethical concerns. In most cases of organ transplant an animal organ fails to function with the human body, however, there are some case where an animal's eye or other body part can be used, but in common practice of heart failure or kidney failure but in majority cases the only case possible of organ transplant is when a human donor donates the organ for the patient.

This makes a rational debate valid for the society because in most cases, the donor makes his life miserable after donating a functioning organ of the body and makes himself deprived a normal life. This makes it clear that in most cases the donor I a needy person and has been forced to donate the organ to the patient. In rare cases, the donor is a very close family relative to the patient (Yacoub, 1990).

This entire issue raises a debatable ethical rights issue where the donors are forced to take part in this issue, and most human rights organization condemn the practice of organ ...