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Organ transplant banned in JK, thanks to lawmakers Patients move to neighbouring states 10/8/2016 10:47:55 PM G S Asgotra Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 8: The lawmakers of J&K seem least bothered about making changes to the existing Organ Transplant Act, due to which the patients have to move to neighbouring states for organ transplantation. The Organ Transplant Act was enacted separately by the state assembly in 1997, just two years after the enactment of Central Organs Transplant Act, 1995 which was unanimously passed by both the Houses of the Parliament to provide the facilities of organs transplantation. Sources in the Health department said that after the infamous kidney racket was busted in Gurgaon in 2008, the state government had banned the practice of corneal transplantation in the state and announced that a committee would be constituted to look over the existing law for widening its scope. But after lapse of many years, the lawmakers have failed to get it amended. A senior ophthalmologist said, "Eye banks were proposed to be set up in two government medical colleges of the state by the previous government." The requisite infrastructure was also created and sophisticated machinery was procured for the eye banks. The machinery is now gathering dust in the buildings. "The government has failed to clear the flaws in the existing laws so as to press the infrastructure and machineries into service," the doctor said. Interestingly, during a seminar at GMC&H Jammu on eye donation awareness, many people had expressed their desire to donate their eyes.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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