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A view on Organ Transplant in India

Hello Friends. Today I came across a very neatly written editorial in Indian Express newspaper regarding the present scenario of Organ transplant in our country. It goes as, "A law that disregards common sense, exists to be violated. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, India and China had emerged as the kidney transplant hubs of the world. The resultant Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) of 1994 banned commercial organ transplants, allowing only transplants from brain-dead patients and donations from the immediate family — spouses, parents, children and siblings. This constriction of supply against demand made it almost impossible to find donors. Yet, India has hundreds of thousands of patients needing transplants; and organs in demand are not just kidneys but also hearts, lungs, livers, pancreases, and so on. The law, in fact, led to a booming black market, where desperately ill recipients and desperately poor donors were exploited by middlemen. The Gurgaon o