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00:00NBI Director Jaime Santiago is saying that the syndicates are taking advantage of the selling of kidney or stone for the poor of Filipinos.
00:08According to the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, this is not for everyone, especially when it comes to the cost of transplantation.
00:16We have the first news, Maki Pulido.
00:22In order for Joy's 23-year-old daughter to live long, she needs a kidney transplant.
00:27She's already on stage 5, and her kidney is no longer functioning.
00:33It's been a long time since she had a kidney transplant.
00:35Last year, Joy asked the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, or NKTI, how she can get a kidney transplant.
00:43But before the process can start, she needs Php 600,000 as show money.
00:49She doesn't earn much even when it comes to buying food, so until now, the daughter is only on dialysis.
00:55I earn my living at night.
00:57When there's no one around, I don't earn much.
01:01Sometimes, I don't have enough to eat.
01:03We have to pay for the house.
01:05Now, I don't have electricity.
01:07I can't pay the bills of my child.
01:09I can't pay the bills of my child.
01:11I stopped paying the bills.
01:13Because it's going to end.
01:16The NKTI admitted that she really needs money for the transplant.
01:21The NKTI's kidney transplant costs Php 1.2 million.
01:25But PhilHealth can pay for half of it.
01:27The medicines will cost Php 30,000 per month.
01:31The NKTI also appealed to PhilHealth to help with the anti-rejection medicine.
01:37Kidney transplant is not for everybody.
01:39Because you have to have medicines, you have to maintain those medicines for the rest of your life
01:46so that you won't reject the kidney.
01:49It's like a show money.
01:50It's in their bank account.
01:51It's just an assurance.
01:53I hope they can subsidize their medicines at least for the first 6 months post-transplant.
01:59Even if there's money to pay for the kidney transplant,
02:03there's no line if you have a donor.
02:05If there's no living donor, it might take a long time to wait.
02:08One of their patients has been waiting for 6 years to have a kidney donor.
02:13There's a 100 on the waiting list of Human Organ Preservation Effort or HOPE.
02:19It's hoped that more people will be listed as organ donors.
02:22It's also a solution to avoid kidney sales.
02:25If you carry the organ donor card, sign it.
02:29It's also behind your driver's license.
02:32In case anything happens to you,
02:36and you're brain dead but your organs are still functioning,
02:42let's donate all of our organs.
02:45For those with kidney failure, lung failure, heart failure, liver failure,
02:50they can have a new life.
02:52In the middle of the news about kidney sales,
02:54the NKTI said that their process is strict.
02:57It's also hoped that other hospitals will do the same.
03:00For non-related donors,
03:02the donor and recipient must have an emotional or social relationship.
03:07They undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
03:12We have a Hospital Transplant Ethics Committee.
03:15We also have our head of our social worker as part of that committee.
03:20They will interview the donor.
03:24They will talk to the barangay captain.
03:27This is the first news. Mackie Pulido for GMA Integrated News.
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