LAHORE:
Human organs such as heart, liver and kidney will be transplanted to the needy according to the testament of the deceased under a comprehensive policy evolved recently.
This was decided at a meeting held here on Friday. The meeting was chaired by Board of Management, Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Chairman and Human Organs Transplantation Programme Head Prof Dr Jawad Sajid Khan and attended by Post-Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Principal Prof Anjum Habib Vohra and others.
It was decided in the meeting that in case of the clinical death of a patient having already given the testament, his organs would be transplanted to the patient in need. Moreover, a countrywide campaign, supported by religious scholars, social organisations, media and dignitaries associated with the health sector, would be launched to make people aware of human organs transplantation.
Prof Khan said all authentic Muslim scholars including Iranians and Egyptians had termed the human organs donation legal.
Prof Vohra said the human organs transplantation had been in practice in Europe and the US since long and after the framing of a proper policy in Pakistan, the transplantations would be performed here at a low cost.
Prof Cheema and Prof Mahmood hoped that the transplantation process would be transparent and these operations would be carried out with great professionalism.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2012.
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Well... I'm carrying a research on the human organ selling in Pakistan and my prime focus is on the ethical issues, reasons of selling organs and the after effects of selling on the health and income of the sellers which may be positive or negative and then on the basis of these results devise a policy. Everybody is talking about and some NGOs raising slogans against the organ selling. But really it should be banned or we should legalize the selling so that the seller may receive the true price of his organs and our policies should be focussing on how to stop the selling or eradicate the reasons which are forcing them to sell their organs. Why the developing world is involved in selling but not the developed ones and in developing world, why the people engaged in bonded labor; whether it's Brick kilns or the agriculture sector are involved in selling.....
I pray to Allah that this practice comes in place in Pakistan on immediate basis. I need a liver transplant but I do not have any relative/ living donor.