Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Call for organ trafficking ban

Interesting article which we fully subscribe to. A step in the right direction go much further than this statement, but this medical tourism ethics of Worldmedassist (www.worldmedassist.com).

Experts from 78 countries around the world have a call for a complete ban on organ trafficking signed declaration and to transplant tourism.

152 Transplantation specialists, including representatives from the UK, USA, France, India and China agreed on the proposal at a Summit in Istanbul, Turkey.

Although the Istanbul Declaration has no legal authority, it will be expected to be influential.

Shady deals which primarily with the sale of kidneys believed to number because of an international body lack suitable are increasing transplant.

Organ trafficking said, around 10% the nearly 70,000 kidney transplants the performed worldwide each year to take into account.Some estimates indicate the annual number of traded kidneys as high as 15,000.

China, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, Philippines, Republic of Moldova and Romania are among the participants at the Istanbul Summit had the world's leading suppliers of trafficked organe.Alle apart from Romania.

Such as drug trafficking, includes trade exploitation and large Geld.Orgel brokers charge alleged between £ 50,000 and 100,000 £ a transplant for a wealthy organisieren.Geber often impoverished and ill educated patients losing as little as £ 500 in exchange for one of their kidneys.

Transplantation includes tourism, the flip side, trafficking in human beings, the patients, trips abroad transplantation for institutions that are not available in your country.

Medical journal published in the latest issue of the Lancet, the Istanbul Declaration says: "organ trafficking in human beings and transplant tourism violated the principles of Justice, justice and respect for human dignity and should be banned."

The Declaration calls for Governments to outlaw, advertising and other practices may to promote or organ trade promote. in addition to a large number of other suggestions it asks Governments to do everything you can to increase the supply of legitimate transplantation institutions within their own borders.


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