Be the reason someone lives
- donate organs.
More than 500,000 Indians
die every year from organ failure. One
person can save more than eight lives by donating his organs: kidneys, livers, Bone marrow,
hearts, lungs, cornea, pancreases and small bowels.
But supply of organs is, and will always
be, short of the demand. Hence the organ black market. Therefore, an organs market, howsoever deplorable, has
been justified thus: the organ recipient gets life, the transplantation team
gets money, but the donor gets nothing. Why shouldn't he also get some benefit?
"To the multitude facing death
through organ failure, the organ transplantation technology has come as a true
gif of life. But the technology has raised in its wake, as does every new
technology, a number of questions to which there are no easy answers. Moreover
the questions are not just medical, but medico-socio-legal.
. . . transplantation is not a legal
problem; therefore laws are not its solution. Though laws are required to
regulate it.
Who should get the scarce organs? First in
the queue, or the one who will benefit
the maximum, or the one who can pay the most . . . Should non-compliant
patients, or ones with failed transplantation be eligible for the scarce organs
. . ."
--- Sadhana Kala's, The Indian law Institute (Deemed University)
published paper: 'Socio-Medico, Legal Aspects of Organ Transplantation.'
(14.139.60.114:8080/jspui/bitstream/.../059_Socio-Medico,%20Legal%20Aspects.pdf)
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