Organ transplantation is possible between distant relatives, if done out of love and affection, and not for commercial reasons, according to a Delhi High Court Ruling.
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The high court recognized that though commercial transactions are still prohibited in organ donation, an organ donation between two distant relatives need not necessarily be for commercial gain, but could be out of love and affection.
Parveen Begum had been on dialysis and was waiting for a kidney transplant since June 2011, but the Authorisation Committee for Human Organ Transplant of a private hospital had refused to go ahead since the donor and recipient were not closely related and there was an income disparity between the two.
A provision under the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act-1994 (TOHO) indicates that a person who is not a near relative of the patient can donate his/her organ out of attachment or affection for the recipient after prior approval of the authorization committee.
The ruling could provide hope to a number of patients waiting for organ transplantation.
Source-Medindia