Kidney donation reality show a hoax

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Kidney donation reality show revealed as a hoax in

Netherlands

Jun 1 05:04 PM US/Eastern

TOSTERLING

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch television show in

which a woman would supposedly donate her kidney to one of three contestants

was revealed as a hoax Friday.

At the last moment,

presenters of the " Big Donor Show " said the woman was not actually

dying of a brain tumour as claimed and the entire

exercise was intended to pressure the government into reforming its organ

donation laws and raise public awareness of the need for organs.

The three prospective

recipients were real patients in need of transplants and had been in on the

hoax, the show said.

Before the show aired, the

Royal Netherlands Medical Association had urged its members not to participate

and questioned whether the program might just be a publicity stunt.

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