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Matching Market Saves Lives!

The shortage of organ donors is a well-known, urgent health crisis. More than 114,000 people in the United States are currently on a national waiting list enduring a long, painful, and stressful wait for an organ, and, unfortunately, the sad reality is that many will die before receiving one. There are just not enough donors; the disparity between supply and demand of organs is just too large. Medical researchers are constantly looking to develop innovative ways to close the gap. An economist attempts to tackle this problem using matching markets. Alvin Roth, a Nobel Prize winner for his work in matching markets, helps find patients a kidney donor. 

The kidney donor dilemma is that most patients have someone around them that would like to donate their organ to them but cannot because they are not compatible. Roth addresses this challenge by creating a better algorithm for the kidney organ exchange program where patients with incompatible donors match with compatible donors and their incompatible donors match with compatible patients for a better match, and, therefore, starting a chain of kidney transplants.  

In some places, waiting time for a kidney, the organ most in demand, can stretch for years, with prospective recipients continuing to suffer through debilitating dialysis treatments. With this new system, more patients are being matched with donors, more kidney transplants are being performed, and millions of dollars spent on dialysis are being saved. Most importantly, many more lives are being saved. 

Link: https://www.nap.edu/read/23508/

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  • Medical Center

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    CONTACT US via Email ID: medicalkidneycenter@gmail.com OR
    WHATS APP: +919811461505 ….WE PAY 50% BEFORE SURGERY AND THE REMAINING 50% AFTER SURGERY. YOU CAN SELL YOUR ONE KIDNEY AND LIVE YOUR NORMAL LIFE, AFTER THE SURGERY YOU WILL BE HEALTHY AND STRONG. THE OPERATION IS 100% GUARANTEE AND SUCCESSFUL…

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