The Dire Situation of Kidney Donors

The lives of kidney donors get worse after having the operation. This does not diminish interest among potential kidney donors.

Egi Adyatama

August 7, 2023

DADANG had difficulty working over the past week. This 30-year-old man, whose real name has been concealed, usually scavenges for scrap 14 hours every day. Now this resident of Wangisagara village, Majalaya subdistrict, Bandung Regency, West Java, has to rest a lot. “My waist feels hot when I work,” he said on Thursday, August 3, pointing to his lower abdomen. There is a scar there. According to Dadang, it is from his kidney donor sur

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