Essay About Organ Donationtable Of Contentssr And Medical Need Of Organ Transplant

Ethics in Organ Donation
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The aim of Transplantation of human organs act, 1994, was to rationalize organ donations and transplants in the country. The main aims of the act were:To regulate removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposesTo accept brain death and make it possible to use these patients as potential organ donorsTo preventing commercial dealings of organs.After this law, the concept of brain death was legalized for the first time in India. Though it aimed to prevent commercial dealings of organs ad stop organ trafficking, the illegal trade continued unabashed in certain areas of India until they were busted by Indian Police. These areas were dominated by the poor and impoverished of the society who would readily give away their organ for some amount of money. After the Indian Ocean tsunami, post 2007, the fishermen near the southern cost lost their livelihood and fell prey to traffickers. They sold their kidneys to meagre amount of money to support their family and I some instances get rid of debt. Hence a new bill was laid down in 2009.The Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Bill, 2009This Amendment Bill offered regulation to the transplantation of human tissue along with organ transplant. It made necessary for the medical staff which looked after the patient to put forward a request to the relatives of the brain dead person for donation of organs. It was made necessary for every organ donation case to go to the Authorisation Committee first. Some of the key highlights of the Bill are as follows:The act permits donations from living relatives who are near relatives. It added grandparents and grandchildren to the list of “near relative”.The doctor has to inform the patient or his relatives about the possibility of organ donation and make sure for their consent to it.If there is a medical mismatch in organ of the donor and the recipient, the bill permits to swap organs with another pair of such a person.It increased in the penalty for illegal removal of human organs as well as payment for a human organ inexchange of its receiptThe latest amendment was made in 2013 to this bill, according to which there will be a Verification Committee in addition to the authorization committee for the verification of the details of the donor and the recipient as well as the other legalities of the matter of organ transplant.