Stringent laws and complicated procedures are delaying the kidney transplantation process killing more people in the process
This amendment may have succeeded in controlling the kidney racket scandal to a certain limit but it has several loopholes. Mostly, it has been severally criticized as being an unduly elongated process to get approvals for unrelated kidney donation. Due to the lengthy procedure and absence of government nominees on the authorisation committee, transplants have been stalled or delayed in several hospitals. One nephrologist from a reputed hospital said, “We appreciate the move of the government but the procedure has been moving at a snail’s pace.”
In one example, in 2011, many transplants in Maharashtra got delayed for a few months in several hospitals due to delays in release of authorisation letters. Although there is no official data on whether any deaths took place due to delayed release of approval letters, there is no doubt that this may have been the case. Kidney transplantation on an average burns the pocket of an individual by almost Rs 400,000 (if the same is done legally!); post-operative expenses come to around Rs.10,000 per month! And in case the deal is illegal, then the recipient’s family has to conjure up another Rs.200,000 to Rs.400,000.
In reality, the stringent laws that have come into force have not been able to completely curb the illegal kidney racket – but worse, in some cases, have ensured that honest and emergency cases of transplants have not been processed in time. The need of the moment is for the government to now set a more stringent time-bound condition on the Authorization Committee to clear any pending case for kidney transplantation within 24 hours of them receiving the application. If such a time duration seems too less, then the government should immediately disband the concept of an authorization committee which does not understand the criticality of life and death situations.
This amendment may have succeeded in controlling the kidney racket scandal to a certain limit but it has several loopholes. Mostly, it has been severally criticized as being an unduly elongated process to get approvals for unrelated kidney donation. Due to the lengthy procedure and absence of government nominees on the authorisation committee, transplants have been stalled or delayed in several hospitals. One nephrologist from a reputed hospital said, “We appreciate the move of the government but the procedure has been moving at a snail’s pace.”
In one example, in 2011, many transplants in Maharashtra got delayed for a few months in several hospitals due to delays in release of authorisation letters. Although there is no official data on whether any deaths took place due to delayed release of approval letters, there is no doubt that this may have been the case. Kidney transplantation on an average burns the pocket of an individual by almost Rs 400,000 (if the same is done legally!); post-operative expenses come to around Rs.10,000 per month! And in case the deal is illegal, then the recipient’s family has to conjure up another Rs.200,000 to Rs.400,000.
In reality, the stringent laws that have come into force have not been able to completely curb the illegal kidney racket – but worse, in some cases, have ensured that honest and emergency cases of transplants have not been processed in time. The need of the moment is for the government to now set a more stringent time-bound condition on the Authorization Committee to clear any pending case for kidney transplantation within 24 hours of them receiving the application. If such a time duration seems too less, then the government should immediately disband the concept of an authorization committee which does not understand the criticality of life and death situations.
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