RECENT ADVANCES IN LAWS AND ETHICS IN ORGAN TRANSPLANT IN INDIA-A REVIEW

The legislation called transplantation of human organ act (THO) was passed in India in the year 1994. In the rules has been accepted brain death as a mode of death and sale of organ is a punishable offence where still now many cases are reported of organ transplant. Through section 9(3) of THO, it is mentioned unrelated donor can donate their organ through signing in a consent form and the scandals are happening based on this. THO has undergone major and minor changes in the form of addition of rules and amendments in order to improve the acts to make it much acceptable legally. In recent years’ cadaveric organ transplant has been increased. Organ scarcity is still a global problem, to solve that problem some hospitals, NGOs (like MOHAN), United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) are keeping momentum of deceased disease programme. In 2008 Governments amend few new amendments on a purpose of putting a stop to organ commerce. The legal and ethical principles that we follow universally with organ donation, transplantations are also important for the future as these may be used to resolve our conflicts related to emerging sciences such as cloning, tissue engineering, and stem cells.A Review on the Current rules of Organ Transplant in Indi