JS body concerned at illegal kidney trade

The health ministry is going to form a monitoring team comprised of doctors, experts and others concerned to stop illegal organ transplantation.
Health Minister AFM Ruhul Haque said this yesterday in a meeting of a parliamentary body at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
The parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare ministry expressed grave concern over the recent newspaper reports on illegal kidney trade and transplantation, and asked the ministry to take stern action against the people responsible, said Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, chief of the committee, after the meeting.
The health minister told The Daily Star that there is a set of rules for organ transplantation and everyone has to follow them to receive or donate kidney or any other organs of human body.
"The monitoring team will ensure that the rules are followed," he said.
Murad Hasan, lawmaker and a member of the House watchdog, said the team will visit hospitals where transplantation of human organs is done.
The parliamentary committee asked the ministry to stop the illegal business, he added.