The more than 400 kidney and liver campaigns on gofundme.com alone underline the financial burden that’s imposed on transplant recipients
For a Victoria, B.C., woman suffering from end-stage liver disease, there was some good news: she had been deemed a candidate to undergo transplantation.
What’s more, the informal web-based system for raising money to cover those costs produces unequal results, often unrelated to medical need, they conclude. The paper also noted that crowdfunding patients often must sacrifice considerable privacy, revealing personal medical and financial information to bolster their pitch, sometimes at the urging of funding websites.
The authors looked at kidney and liver transplant patients who had used GoFundMe. They found 258 kidney cases and 171 liver patients. A Charlottetown woman with kidney failure managed to raise $3,311 to pay for “medical bills, food, accommodation, loss of wages and other related costs” to undergo a transplant in Halifax, and help others who were part of a chain organ-donation process.
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