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Philippines Ban Organ Transplant to Foreigners
Dave Tan, executive director of the Philippine Kidney Dialysis Foundation, told AFP the ban appeared water-tight and in line with those imposed by other countries.
"For foreign patients the ban will be very strong," he said. "I don't think there will be a black market because there is a lot of international pressure and the spotlight is on the Philippines.
"To do a transplant on a foreign patient surreptitiously is going to be very difficult."
He said it would be to government monitors to do checks, but "there aren't that many hospitals doing this, so it will not be difficult to enforce these guidelines."
He added: "The bottom line is there are not enough kidneys to go around if you rely on altruistic voluntary donations or from dead people."
But Amihan Abueva, a Manila-based official of the rights monitor Asia ACTs Against Child Trafficking, said she feared the guidelines would be ignored or that middlemen would find loopholes.
The concern is that traffickers could turn to organs from the dead, since the new rules addressed only organ transfers from "living non-related donors," she told AFP.
"There are no clear guidelines in place," she said.
Source-AFP
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