Open talk on sale of kidney

I REFER to the letter “Radical option for organ transplant” (The Star, Aug 2) by Gomez Jacob and Datuk Dr Ghazali Ahmad’s response “Poor rate in organ donation” (Aug 4). I am responding to Dr Ghazali’s invitation for an open discussion.

I am not a lawyer or a doctor, just a member of the public. I have a friend who is on dialysis. My offer to donate a kidney to him was refused not by him but by doctors because we are not related.