NEW DELHI: A comprehensive legislation regulating the removal of organs from cadavers and living persons and prohibiting trade in human organs is being reformulated on the basis of the recommendations made by a committee headed by an eminent jurist Dr.L.M.Singhvi the Rajya Sabha (upper house of parliament) was informed on Tuesday.
It was proposed to introduce the bill in due course after following the relevant constitutional procedures India’s health and family welfare minister M.LFotedar informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
The proposal for enactment of legislation involved a change from the present concept of “death” passed on cardio-respiratory failure to “brain-stem death” the minister said.
The proposed legislation deals with a highly complex and sensitive subject involving medical legal and ethical issues which needed to be very carefully considered before the legislation was given final shape he added.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 26, 1991
