By Masood Rehman
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of a suo motu case against Kidney Centre, Rawalpindi, for carrying out illegal transplantations of human organs after it was assured that no further transplantations would be carried out.
A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ch Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, disposed of the case. The court had summoned the last three year’s complete record of the kidney centre to know how many transplantations/operations were carried out.
Earlier, in an undertaking Aadil Hospital, Lahore, had also decided not to carry out transplantations of any sort or description in future.
The court said that the object of promulgating Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Ordinance, 2007 was to provide for the regulation, removal, storage and transplantation of human organs and tissues but it seemed that the provisions of the ordinance were not adhered to strictly and the sale of human organs was going on in two hospitals whose names were mentioned in a letter sent by the Transplantation Society of Pakistan’.
The court took suo motu notice of the illegal sale of organs after the Transplantation Society of Pakistan pointed out that Kidney Centre, Rawalpindi, and Aadil Hospital, Lahore, were involved in the trade.
The law was introduced by the Shaukat Aziz government on the instructions of the apex court, which had directed the administration to devise measures against illegal donors, sellers and purchasers of human organs by introducing a proper law.
Complaints about mushroom growth of private clinics in the country, especially in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, had prompted the apex court to take up the matter.
It was revealed that poor donors from small villages were enticed into selling their kidneys through middlemen to buyers, mainly from Middle East countries, because of poverty or huge debts.
A few years ago some newspapers had even printed chilling photographs of at least a dozen brick kiln workers posing shirtless outside Lahore Press Club. All of them had sold their kidneys to pay off debts to kiln owners to earn their freedom. (DT Report)
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of a suo motu case against Kidney Centre, Rawalpindi, for carrying out illegal transplantations of human organs after it was assured that no further transplantations would be carried out.
A three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ch Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, disposed of the case. The court had summoned the last three year’s complete record of the kidney centre to know how many transplantations/operations were carried out.
Earlier, in an undertaking Aadil Hospital, Lahore, had also decided not to carry out transplantations of any sort or description in future.
The court said that the object of promulgating Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Ordinance, 2007 was to provide for the regulation, removal, storage and transplantation of human organs and tissues but it seemed that the provisions of the ordinance were not adhered to strictly and the sale of human organs was going on in two hospitals whose names were mentioned in a letter sent by the Transplantation Society of Pakistan’.
The court took suo motu notice of the illegal sale of organs after the Transplantation Society of Pakistan pointed out that Kidney Centre, Rawalpindi, and Aadil Hospital, Lahore, were involved in the trade.
The law was introduced by the Shaukat Aziz government on the instructions of the apex court, which had directed the administration to devise measures against illegal donors, sellers and purchasers of human organs by introducing a proper law.
Complaints about mushroom growth of private clinics in the country, especially in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, had prompted the apex court to take up the matter.
It was revealed that poor donors from small villages were enticed into selling their kidneys through middlemen to buyers, mainly from Middle East countries, because of poverty or huge debts.
A few years ago some newspapers had even printed chilling photographs of at least a dozen brick kiln workers posing shirtless outside Lahore Press Club. All of them had sold their kidneys to pay off debts to kiln owners to earn their freedom. (DT Report)
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