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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

<<=M=H=O=>> Pragmatic solution needed

Pragmatic solution needed

The Gurgaon kidney scandal,

which has rocked the country over the last few days,

has once again brought into focus

the sad state of affairs in the medical field.

An Ayurvedic doctor,

Dr. Santosh Kumar Raut aka

Dr. Amit Kumar who ran a clandestine hospital

in a posh Gurgaon locality in the outskirts

of the national capital, has been a serial racketeer.

Caught

once before indulging in the same racket in Mumbai,

he changed his name a few years ago,

shifted operations to Gurgaon,

and had apparently conducted

almost 500 illegal kidney transplants

by luring poor and illiterate workers,

many times without their knowledge.

Still at large,

Dr. Raut is the latest doctor discovered

conducting such illegal transplants.

Periodically kidney rackets have been unearthed

from all over the country,

the latest in September last year when

Dr. Palani Ravichandran, a nephrologist from Chennai,

was arrested for doing illegal transplants.

Earlier in February last year,

more than 500 people in Tamil Nadu

had been duped by kidney brokers,

who after promising thousands of dollars,

had absconded once kidneys were removed.

While the racket itself is disturbing

and indicates the levels to which professional doctors

can stoop to make money,

there is another aspect,

which cannot be ignored.

That is the fact that there are thousands

of unfortunate people with failed kidneys waiting

to get a transplant.

One estimate is that there are about 1.5 lakh people

who require kidney transplants in India alone,

every year and only about 3,500 manage to get donor kidneys.

This huge gap between demand and supply

is creating opportunities for unscrupulous doctors to cash in.

There is an urgent need for the government

and the medical professionals

to put their heads together and

have a re-look at the

Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994,

which prohibits buying and selling of human organs.

Is it possible that healthy people

who can survive with only one kidney

be allowed to sell their other kidney,

under strict but transparent conditions?

There is also a need for popularising

cadaver transplants, and to create conditions

in more hospitals to harvest the organs

within the specified time, to improve supply.

There is also a need for opening

more kidney banks across the country.

It is common knowledge that the kidney rackets

flourish because of the demand not only

from within India but also from overseas.

A proper control and check of the foreign patients

coming in for such transplants also need to be put in place.

A pragmatic solution

is the need of the hour.

Hinduism is more a way of life than a method of worship.
Dharmo Rakshati Rakshithaha
If you protect Dharma, Dharma will in turn protect you

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