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India to Liberalize Organ Transplant Act and Launch Nationwide Awareness Campaign
It will introduce significant changes in the organ donation laws and also launch a nationwide organ transplant awareness programme, it is reported.
Only on Thursday night, the police had cracked down on a circle of doctors who reportedly performed more than 500 illegal kidney transplants in the last eight years in the National Capital Region.
Doctor Amit Kumar, the mastermind of the racket, is still missing. His victims were mainly labourers who were promised jobs.
Such scams keep breaking out time and again. The federal Health Ministry hopes that the changes now being contemplated in the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 could make organ transplant that much easier and prevent the need for illegitimate operations.
For one, the amendments will legalize swapping of vital organs between willing but incompatible donors.
Current rules restrict organ transplant to blood relatives (father, mother, son, daughter, wife, husband, sister and brother), near and distant relatives and also those who come forward to donate out of love and affection.
It is this last category that often leads to abuse as determination of "love and affection towards the patient" can be subjective.
Swapping is where relatives are willing to donate but are medically incompatible for transplant.
As a consequence of the changes, such relatives can donate their organ to a compatible patient and, in turn, get an organ that is compatible with the patients related to themselves.
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11/23/2008
It is demonstrate that the hypothermic techniques of conservation of organs to transplant drained their possibilities of progress. In their substitution it is intends the ACTIVE CONSERVATION OF THE ORGANS IN NORMOTHERMIA. To improve the life quality of the future transplanted patients, all of us must request to the scientific community so that it designs a normothermic conservation device.
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