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Kidney Trade

Strip accused doctors of registration

HC asks authorities

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday directed Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council to strike the accused doctors off the BMDC register for their involvement in illegal kidney transplantation after identifying them through an investigation.
The court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in two weeks why its failure to protect the fundamental rights of the people whose kidneys have been sold and transplanted unlawfully should not be declared illegal.
It came up with the rule after hearing a writ petition filed by Bangladesh Manabadhikar Bastabayan Sangstha.
An HC vacation bench ordered the health secretary to immediately form a national enquiry committee to probe the reported incidents of illegal kidney transplantation and trade and submit a report to it within 15 days.
It also asked the government to ensure strict enforcement of the Human
Organ Transplantation Act, 1999 to stop the illegal trade.
According to the law, organs can only be transplanted if it is donated by a close kin or if donated prior to someone's death. It states that one cannot under any circumstance receive money in exchange for organs.
The law also stipulates that organ trade is illegal and
a punishable offence. A convict can be imprisoned for three to seven years and fined Tk 3 lakh for violating the law.
The rights body yesterday filed the petition with the HC bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder as a public interest litigation following recent media reports on the illegal organ transplantation and trade.
A mafia gang and some corrupt doctors are involved in the illegal trade, peti-
tioner's counsels Sigma Huda and Ruhul Quddus Kazal told the court.
Some of the arrested kidney traders have confessed the involvement of several corrupt doctors in the crime, added the counsels.
The government authorities concerned have failed to protect the fundamental rights of the people whose kidneys have been illegally sold and transplanted, they argued.
Assistant Attorney General Kazi Zinat Hoque represented the government.