The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Health and Family Welfare ministry submitted its report on the “Transplantation of Human Organs Bill, 2017” before the House after scrutiny.
Committee chairman Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim submitted the report on Sunday before the House held with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim placed the bill in the parliament on September 13, 2017 with a provision of three years of rigorous imprisonment or Tk 10 lakh fine or both for violation of the law, aiming to check the illegal trade of human organs.
The proposed bill said no hospital can conduct human organ transplantation in the country without government’s approval while the public hospitals having specialised units in this regard can do the job without taking prior approval.
There will be a medical board in every hospital for deciding the transplantation and a National Cadaveric Committee to oversee the human organs transplantation in the country, according to the proposed law.
The law is aimed at improving the country’s health care services keeping consistency with advancement of medical science.
According to the proposed law, any organ transplantable to the human body, including kidney, liver, bone, eye, heart, lung and tissue, could be transplanted after their collection from human bodies having heartbeats or in active with life support for transplantation purpose.
