Organs to be transplanted on deceased’s will

Prof Khan says all authentic Muslim scholars including Iranians and Egyptians had termed human organs donation legal.

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 15^th, 2012.