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Sunday, October 16, 2011

DNA test to bust kidney of �donation� clubs

DNA test, kidney of ?donation? RacketAuthorities falling back to test for genetic probe, donor recipient Relation? Kamran Reza ChowdhuryThe Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU) to blow up is investigated, whether as 421 kidney donors to recipients of vital body needs are related according to the law confirmed the existence of a prosperous, well oiled ?donation? clubs.

Officials want to now DNA test for a successful human organ transplant Act 1999 a. The Act provides that only close relatives of Patients?son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister, maternal and paternal uncles and aunts, husband and Wife?can donate organs and hospital authorities must be the relationship between the donor and the recipient before the operation safe.


But the flagship of BSMMU and other hospitals in Dhaka and elsewhere in Bangladesh, are lured the poor to separate their kidneys for a small sum of money by powerful gangs, then rich patients of making a killing selling.


Spotlight on the bizarre world of the organ donor has become often the media but without success. He law of supply and demand had the last laugh.


Ministry of health probe discovered that 421 kidney transplantation for BSMMU held no records about the relationship between recipients and donors.


The Act provides that human body will be trading on for three to seven years imprisoned and/or punished TK 300,000.


The five-Member probe body, headed by the Assistant Director (hospital-4), to investigate, formed of the Directorate-General for health on 13 September whether hospitals follow the law.


The Director-General of the Directorate-General put the results of the probe body a report on health on 21 September, which was placed on the meeting of the Permanent Parliamentary Committee on the Ministry of health on Wednesday.


The report says that 10 hospitals in Dhaka with the BSMMU hospital alone implementation 421 kidney transplantation 778 kidneys and two liver transplanted.


The authorities to prove the records, the relationships between donors and patients other hospitals about however. You accept photocopies of the national ID cards and certificates from the local government officials as evidence.


The probe body said that DNA Transplant Act 1999 must be binding on strict implementation of the human body. Also further proposed campaigns to raise awareness against human organ trade.


?We have the report. We try to find a mechanism, the effective implementation of the law, guarantees ? health Secretary MD Humayun Kabir said daily Sun on Friday.


He said, necessary rules on loopholes in the law include his Ministry will formulate.


?Some experts have told us that the DNA test not harmless. That is why we added alternative methods to explore, to keep must, ? Humayun.


Formerly a cross-party parliamentary Committee on health demanded that arrest the Government fifth-wheel kingpin of trafficking in kidney and liver often Highighted of the print and electronic media.


Newspaper reports that at least 50 poor people in Kalai shortly Joypurhat, connivance in the District of with the organ trade syndicates, kidneys and liver wealthy patients using fake documents sold.


Powerful gangs refuse to pay the poorest of the poor after the harvest of their vital organs. The thugs nourished itself from poverty and a corrupt medical facility, which an eye to turn into blatant violation of the law for the fast money is.


Not too long ago, leader on the basis of Dhaka ring with the name Tarek arrested, the police confessed along with brokers, that run an organ clubs in the League with leading hospitals.


Source: daily-sun.com


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