Read an article on the front page of the Citizen , about Discovery Health (Bongi's favourite) refusing to fund a liver transplant on what seems like suspicion of alcohol abuse. So I want to debate transplants. And the ethical eligibility to receive one. Liver transplants spring to mind. Many conditions cause end-stage liver disease that would then require a liver transplant for survival. Livers are a scarce resource that do not become available everyday. For instance, in the UK, 17000 people are waiting for a liver transplant. If you're lucky, between 50 and 200 become available every year. So, how do you allocate organs appropriately and fairly? Do you want to give a liver to a person, who through large consumption of alcohol caused cirrhosis? Or do you want to give it to a child, who through no fault of their own, has biliary atresia. Or to a woman who developed auto immune hepatitis? Most international guidelines say that for a person who has alcohol-induced liver failure t...