Legalise commercial donation to prevent organ rackets: Experts
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New Delhi:The busting of another huge organ racket involving two employees of the city’s Apollo hospital has again brought to light the massive scarcity of organs required for transplant, which experts say can be overcome only by legalising living organ donation in exchange for money, or “commercial donors”.
Medical experts say the government was “not willing to even discuss the subject” of organ donation in exchange for money because it was apprehensive that poor people could take advantage of it lured by the monetary factor.
“Solution to such illegal organ racket is that the process should be legalised, but at the same time the government needs to ensure that the money to be received by the donor is directly transferred into his or her account, without any broker or middle man coming in between,” M.C. Misra, Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told IANS.
Misra felt it was difficult to prevent illegal organ rackets as usually the top authorities of hospitals are involved. He said legalizing the process was the only solution or more such rackets could mushroom in the future.
Medical experts say the government was “not willing to even discuss the subject” of organ donation in exchange for money because it was apprehensive that poor people could take advantage of it lured by the monetary factor.
“Solution to such illegal organ racket is that the process should be legalised, but at the same time the government needs to ensure that the money to be received by the donor is directly transferred into his or her account, without any broker or middle man coming in between,” M.C. Misra, Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told IANS.
Misra felt it was difficult to prevent illegal organ rackets as usually the top authorities of hospitals are involved. He said legalizing the process was the only solution or more such rackets could mushroom in the future.
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