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Pastimes : I NEED To Sell a KIDNEY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 10K a day who wrote (558)	4/1/2000 10:44:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 600

Lottery Win Kidney Patient Bombarded by Donors Friday March 31 10:31 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) - A kidney dialysis patient who won $6.54 million in Britain's national lottery has been bombarded with offers of kidneys for transplant in return for some of his winnings. Nick Taylor, who said at a news conference that he would swap his jackpot for a new kidney, told British media Friday that he has had dozens of offers from people wanting to take up the offer. The BBC reported one woman as saying: ``I want to donate my kidney if he donates me some money.' Paying for transplant organs is illegal in Britain, and the offers were slammed by the National Kidney Research Foundation as ``absolutely dreadful.' ``I can't believe that people would offer to sell their organs for the chance of some lottery cash,' said Nick Turkentine of the foundation. ``Words cannot express how we as a charity feel about people trafficking in human organs.' Taylor, 26, has been suffering from kidney disease since he was 11 years old and has already had two transplants, both of which were unsuccessful. National transplant database figures show there were 4,691 people waiting for kidney transplants in Britain in 1999, two percent more than the previous year. Doctors carried out 1,325 kidney transplants from cadaver donors and 235 operations from living donors in 1999.