Delhi HC allows multi-way organ swap transplants beyond two pairs
New Delhi, June 3 -- The Delhi High Court has held that the Authorisation Committee can permit registered organ donors to participate in swap transplants with anyone to secure compatible organs for their near relatives, and that such exchanges must not be restricted to only two donor-recipient pairs.
A bench of justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, in his verdict released on May 30, said that Section 9(3A) of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, which allows organ swaps with the committee's approval, was enacted to address a practical difficulty where a person's willingness to donate an organ to a near relative cannot be fulfilled due to biological incompatibility, despite no fault on either side.
The court held that the provis...
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