Canada polices transplant tourism

Posted: Fri 20 Aug, 2010 12:00 AM

The Canadian Society of Transplantation is monitoring ‘transplant tourism’ by passing a policy directing doctors on how to deal with patients who are looking to become transplant tourists. The term ‘transplant tourism’ usually means travelling to another - often developing - country, to purchase transplant organs that are either unavailable or more expensive in the patient’s home country.

The policy, drafted by The Canadian Society of Transplantation, said patients should be warned about the ethical and medical risks associated with transplant tourism, according to a report by eTurboNews. People who sold their organs may have been exploited or hurt and some organs may have been taken by force, the policy cautioned.

In recent years, there has been a rise in transplant tourism around the world, and this policy is a move in the right direction according to human rights activists who have long objected to organ harvesting from unwilling and innocent victims.

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