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.
In this regard, Section 9(1) mandates that no human organ removed from the body of a donor before his/her death shall be transplanted into a recipient unless the donor is a near relative of the recipient.