Organ transplant framework ready
Organ transplant framework ready
THE government is putting final touches to the legal framework for organ donations so as to control the sale and trafficking of organs and enable local hospitals to conduct transplants in line with international standards.
Chief Medical Officer, Prof Abel Makubi.
The Chief Medical Officer, Prof Abel Makubi told The Guardian in an interview yesterday that the envisaged framework is in the hands of ministerial legal experts. Stakeholders will go through it before the bill is taken to the National Assembly, he said.
Currently, organ donations and transplants are not conducted under a specific law and appended regulations. Guidelines issued to health facilities with capacities to perform such procedures are used instead, he said.