Extrernality of Market Failure in Organ Transplantation: Black Market for Organs

This article in The Financial Times and the following quote discuss various people who are on trial for organ trafficking.
"In a separate case, seven Kosovan surgeons are on trial before EU judges for illegal kidney transplants and murder at the medicus clinic in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, in recent years. Two co-accused – one Turkish, the other Israeli – are wanted by Interpol."

I will not discuss the morality of these surgeons' actions at this time, although suffice it to say that a strong argument can be offered in favor and against these surgeons actions.
The (major and not discussed) problem, as I see it, is that many governments around the world have created acute shortages of organs available for transplantation - and many of these shortages are the result of pieces of legislation outlawing the exchange of "valuable consideration" between organ donee (the person in need of the organ) and the donor (for example, a person donating 1 of their 2 kidneys.) While, legislation of this type was perhaps well intentioned, it was pragmatically misguided and created the deleterious outcome of more people dying before they can receive a transplant organ than is necessary.