7 February, 2007 |

«Transplantation tourism» frightens legal experts

In China the present boom of transplantation is eager to be started. More and more foreigners come to China to receive donor bodies without the turn. However the western legal experts in the new report approve, that many Chinese become donors not at the will. According to these data, bodies the killed prisoners of local prisons, in particular, act as the “suppliers” of organs.
It has been almost 74 passed years after Soviet surgeon Jury Voronoj has lead the first successful change of a kidney. For this time the transplantology has developed so, that now operation on change of various bodies is not represented an insoluble problem. The most important is to find the donor. Relatives of the patients, requiring operation, are running in searches of the one who could rescue their close person.
In many countries including in Russia, official realization of bodies is forbidden. According to the Russian legislation, the purchase or sale of bodies and fabrics of the person entails the criminal liability.
However, unlike the European Union and the United States, in the Russian Federation the presumption of the consent to withdrawal of bodies operates. Easier speaking, in case of sudden premature death the law assumes, that the victim (died) has agreed to transplantation of the bodies.
The stable demand forces some physicians to support a canceling of an interdiction on trade in bodies. In the end of 2006 with such offer the initiative group American and British transplantations has acted. As they said, for today in Northern America and the Europe from 15 up to 30 percent of patients die, and not having waited the change.
The greatest alarm in legal experts is caused by the China which has turned recently in the present center «transplantation tourism». In March 2006 under pressure of the West in the Peoples Republic of China have legislatively forbidden trade in human bodies, but now a new charge, while which is has no comments by the Chinese authorities, is addressed to this country.
David Kilgur, the former Canadian state secretary on Asian-Pacific region, is assured that Canada and other countries should interfere with trips of the citizens to China where they can receive human bodies without turn. He suspects, what exactly is behind each operation.
Legal experts call the developed countries to forbid departure of citizens whose purpose is treatment in China. However, as experts mark, such approach, in turn, breaks democratic freedom of inhabitants of Canada, the USA and the Western Europe.

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