A voucher program that rewards kidney donors in the United States seems to be working.
Currently, most organ transplants are taken from dead people, but far more people need organs than available organs, because only a small percentage of the dead are suitable for organ donation
Based on this, clinicians established a gene matching exchange program in which one donor donates his kidney to the relatives of another donor, but this depends on everyone donating at almost the same time
In order to solve this problem, Jeffrey Veale of the University of California, Los Angeles launched a program that allows these donors to provide kidneys to strangers.
Now, a survey of the top 250 kidney donors who received family vouchers has found that they have triggered further kidney exchanges, bringing a total of 573 transplants
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