KUALA LUMPUR: Any claim on the existence of sale and purchase of human organs in this country must be taken seriously by all parties because it is an exploitation of certain groups and is against medical ethics.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said should there be human trafficking for the purpose of marketing human organs, it must be investigated under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007.
Dr Noor Hisham said the policies and procedures of the Health Ministry Malaysia were clearly stated in the Human Tissues Act 1974 which regulated the harvesting of organs from cadaveric donors. He said to tighten clinical governance of organ transplant in this country, the Health Ministry has established a transplantation committee that regulated the organ donation programme among living donors involving the prospective donor and prospective recipient who were not related or donors and recipients who were non-citizens.
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