Dehradun, April 4 -- The recent busting of a kidney transplant racket at a 'hospital' in Kanpur, once again, draws attention to the vast gap that exists between the demand and supply in this area of health care. The law on transplants has actually made the availability of organs very much more difficult for those in need of them. As is the case in many other areas, the law has only succeeded in driving the business further underground. While the rich and powerful can manage a donor who seems to have complied with all the strict provisions of the law, or get the transplant done abroad, the average person in need of a kidney has been left with little or no recourse.
As is usually the case, regulations are often passed in India merely to conf...