Abstract

Organ transplantation is one area in which scientists have achieved amazing results in the 21st century. The shortage of organs remains a serious problem facing medical science, yet, thousands of human organs buried every day, especially from the victims of brain-dead. Organ grafts are important in order to the treatment of organ failure such as liver disease, kidney failure and so on, occasioned by acute medical conditions. This paper contends that the root cause of organ shortages is the reliance solely on altruistic organ donations. The altruistic organ donation is good, as far as they go, but they do not leave far enough. We further argue that Victor Vroom’s Expectancy Theory if successful should expand the organ pool for transplantation.