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8th February 2010

Unrecorded leave for organ donors

posted in - Ethics, - Nation, - Palmdoc |

While it is laudable to place incentives for organ donation, one wonders if 42 days unrecorded leave for civil servants is rather excessive. It seems like a classic “give an inch and they’ll ask for a mile” when Cuepacs thinks 42 days is not enough, and is asking for 60 days.
What about employees in the private sector? Are civil servants so special they need 42 days leave?
There is the caveat “as long as deemed necessary by a specialist” but I think this is a flexible discretion which can be used/abused to take advantage of the maximum allowed leave.
Somehow I think we aren’t going to see a flood of civil servants volunteering their kidneys or whatever so I guess this is just a moot discussion. But I suggest the powers that be spell out more specific criteria. For instance, blood is also arguably an organ (albeit in liquid form) so is blood donation also included? ;) Lest any of you pooh pooh this idea, mind you bone marrow/peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is also considered an organ transplant.

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One Response to “Unrecorded leave for organ donors”

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    Gravatar dranony Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 10:08 am

    Isn’t blood is to bone marrow, as semen is to testes? :)
    Is bone marrow an organ, or is blood an organ? Are testes organs, or is semen?
    Will sperm donors qualify for 42 day URL? :)

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