Chapter 7: Human Organ Transplantation: Legal and Ethical Aspects

medical practitioner

medical practitioner

No ________ or any other person shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, or aid in conducting by himself /herself or through any other person, any activity relating to the removal, storage, or transplantation of any human organ at a place other than a place registered under this Act.

Physicians

________ and other health professionals are prohibited from engaging in organ transplantation procedures if they have reason to believe that the organs concerned have been the subjects of commercial transactions.

World Health Organisation

The proliferation of human organ trade for the purposes of transplantation during 1970s and 1980s has influenced ________ to develop a set of guiding principles on human organ transplantation.

Organs

________ for transplantation should be removed preferably from the bodies of deceased persons.

therapeutic purposes

No place including a registered hospital shall be used by any person for the removal, storage or transplantation of any human organ, except, for ________.

Transplantation of Human Organs Bill, 1994

provides for the regulation of removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes, and for prevention of commercial dealing of human organs and for matters connected there with or incidental thereto

Regenerative Tissues

human tissues or organs, which, even if removed from their respective places in the anatomy, have the capacity to rejuvenate or replicate within the body

Transplantation

The grafting of a human organ from any living or deceased person to some other living person for therapeutic purposes

Human organ

Any part of the human body consisting of a structured arrangement of tissues, which, is wholly removed, cannot be replicated by the body

Transplantation of Human Organs Bill

Provides for the regulation of removal, storage, and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes, and prevention of commercial dealing of human organs and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Regenerative Tissues

Human tissues or organs, which, even if removed from their respective places in the anatomy, can rejuvenate or replicate within the body.

Non-regenerative Tissues

kidney, heart, lung, liver, etc. if removed from the human body will not be regenerated.