Reality TV could solve Poland's organ donor shortage

The Big Donor Show was a hoax reality TV program in which the viewers were to decide which one of the three people in need of a kidney transplant would get a it from a supposedly terminally ill woman. Although the show was ethically controversial  it resulted in a huge increase in the number of donor declarations. "I wonder whether the broadcast of such a TV show would not result in similar reactions to the benefit of ill people waiting for the transplantation [in Poland]," wrote Kochanowski. Stanisław Wileński from the RPO office explained that the Ombudsman is looking to solve Poland's donor shortage. The number of organ transplants in Poland plummeted after the Central Anti-Corruption Office arrested famous surgeon Mirosław G. The Ministry of Health is against the broadcast of the show. "Public institutions should not support such controversial projects," said Paweł Trzciński, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) E.B.