Kidney on Ice
- Document number
- 1776
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Kidney on Ice
- Author/publisher
- Anja Dalhoff
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- In cooperation with Alina Radu, Organized crime, Organ trafficking,
- Summary
- Kidney on Ice looks at organ trafficking from a variety of perspectives, exploring the tragic stories of people selling their organs and those who desperately need a transplant. The different issues around organ transplantation are also highlighted by interviews with professionals in the field. In close cooperation with Moldovan journalist Alina Radu; Anja Dalhoff also examines the role played by the criminal network behind this heartless trade and a former policeman is interviewed in prison, where he is now serving 10 years for organ trafficking. The film also describes how unscrupulous, surgeons in Austria and Turkey perform secret illegal operations on living donors from European countries. In her classic, thought provoking style Anja Dalhoff tells the story of two Moldovan men that have sold a kidney and also two Danish kidney patients waiting desperately for a kidney transplant. One of the kidney patients is suffering in dialysis four times a week, the other one got a legal kidney from Sweden. Unique pictures from the operation describes the whole process of a transplantation. The International perspectives are highlighted by clips from Austria, Romania, UK, Denmark and Spain illustrating the glaring contrast in different countries, strategies and laws. For example, all Austrian citizens are assumed to have given consent to have their organs legally transplanted, while in Spain teams of specially trained doctors counsel families in intensive care units and actively encourage them to give consent to permit doctors to remove organs. For more info: www.danishdoc.dk
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