10 ~ Sunday, January 15, 1995 ~ fNorth Shore News

Daughter defends dad’s choice

BRYNN_ KINNEE’S father,
Roger, caught the media spot-
light recently with coverage of
his. purchase of a kidney in
India and the debate it has
unleashed.

By Jan Noble
News Reporter

“According to Brynn, much of

the fallout has been negative, but
’ she: supports her father’s actions.

“| don't think ethics, morals, or
money had anything to do with it”
said Brynn, a 22-year-old recep-
tionist in a West Vancouver. real
.estaic office. “I think my father
wanted to live and this was his only
option and he took it."

. Only people in her father's situ-
ation, she said, have the right io
comment on his decision...

“In-a Jan, 6 Province article,
Health Minister Paul Ramsey was
quoted’ as saying buying organs
“stinks.”

Currently, Roger, a 48-year-old
Bowen Island resident, is recuperat-
ing from a stroke and the operation
in India -at Vancouver's St. Paul's
- Hospital.

»“He’s not really in a state to talk
to anybody,” said Brynn.

>The . British Columbia

Transplant Society opposes organ
purchases in ‘India. and China,
mainly because of the medical risk
to patients, said the society’s com-

‘munications | manager Loretta
O'Connor.
~ Operating procedures are not as
strict in those countries and tests of
“organs for diseases are not as rigor-
ous, she said.

«With organ transplants ‘abroad,

here. is “certainly” an element of

exploitation, O’Connor said.

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Before Roger, a diabetic, trav-
elled to poverty-stricken India, he
had been on a list for a kidney and
pancreas transplant as well as a kid-
ney transplant for almost three
years, said Brynn.

He had been taken off the list for
the dual transplant because he was
nol strong enough to recuperate,
she said.

Roger had been ¢ on dialysis for
two years before the opecation, said
Brynn.

When he discovered the option
of obtaining a kidney in India, his
hopes soared, but family members
were terrified, said Brynn.

However, as the date for Roger's
departure crept closer, and the more
the family heard. about the proce-
dure, “it started sounding like. a
vood idea.” she added.

While in India, Roger waited
three weeks before a kidney donor,
who turned out to be a 22-year-old
man, was found, said Brynn.

“This person. was going to
donate his kidney whether it was to
my dad or someone else,” said

_ Brynn-

Before the operation, her father
and the donor wished each other
luck, she said. According .to esti-

mates from hotel clerks in Madras,’

a city of four million in southern

India where Roger had the opera-"

tion, the donor received $2,000 for
his kidney.

Brynn said her father’s costs for
the operation totalled $30,000.

British. Columbia’ Transplant
Society's O'Connor said 285 peo-
ple in the province are on the list
for kidney transplants. In 1994,
about 107. transplants were done,
down about 23% from 1993.

B.C. has an organ shortage, said
oO’ Connor.

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