TheStar Online
26 Jul 2008
By SEAH CHIANG NEE
Some 600 sufferers below 60 years old are on a nine-year waiting list for a transplant, many of them dying without getting it.
THE recent TV coverage of a man weakened by dialysis walking unsteadily to be investigated for trying to buy a kidney has moved many viewers.
Tang Wee Sung, the 55-year-old executive chairman of retail company C.K. Tang, was propped up on two sides as he staggered to meet his questioners.
Apart from kidney failure, he also suffers from high blood pressure and heart disease. Tang has not been charged yet.
His plan was thwarted when his efforts to buy a kidney came to light. The would-be Indonesian vendor was convicted for organ trading – together with a fellow farmer – in a separate case.
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