SC showers praise on Dr Adeeb Rizvi From the Newspaper | Nasir Iqbal | 9 hours ago     0  ISLAMABAD, April 18: The Supreme Court was all praise on Wednesday for Dr Adeeb Rizvi, Director of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplant (SIUT), for his services to the humanity. The nation was thankful and prayed for Dr Adeeb Rizvi, said Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, one of the members of a bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. Dr Adeeb was present in the court. "We are thankful to you," the chief justice observed. The bench had taken up a petition jointly moved by rights activist Asma Jehangir, HRCP chairperson Zohra Yousuf, Edhi Foundation chairman Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi, Professor of Urology Dr Anwer Naqvi, Sindh Education Foundation president Prof Anita Ghulam Ali, columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee, journalist Zubeida Mustafa, Support Trust chairman Syed Mohammad Shabbar Zaidi, director of Sheikh Zayed Islamic Research Centre Dr Noor Ahmed Shahtaz, Associate Prof Dr Aamir Jafarey, nephrologist consultant Dr Tufail Mohammad and Prof of Pathology Dr Mirza Naqi Zafar. They sought a court order for devising rules and protocol to prevent violation of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissue Act, 2010. Filed by Advocate Muneer A. Malik, the petition requested the court to make available the assistance of an effective and specialised investigative agency like the Federal Investigation Agency to the Human Organ Transplantation Authority for probing possible violations of the act. The petition said the modus operandi of hospitals and doctors violating the law was very sophisticated and commercial transplants taking place frequently involved foreigners. The court ordered the Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan governments to submit their replies to the petition by May 29. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has already filed its reply. The petitioners alleged that unscrupulous elements made the country notorious for organ trafficking and 'transplant tourism'. The petition contended that until the prohibition of kidney trade in India in 1994, it was the primary destination globally for 'transplant tourists'. Post-1994, Pakistan emerged as the world's largest bazaar for illegal trade in human organs. In the absence of any effective law, some 2,500 kidney transplants were performed by 2007 and around 1,500 of them were for the benefit of foreigners. It was estimated that 80 per cent of such transplants were between unrelated living donors and recipients where the former was paid for the donation of his/her kidney. Rich patients from Europe, India and the Middle East would visit Pakistan and pay anywhere between $10,000 and $30,000 for a transplant that included the purchase of a kidney from a living donor. Invariably, such commercial donors were destitute, impoverished and uneducated persons lured into selling their organs by exploitative middlemen working hand in glove with unscrupulous hospitals and medical practitioners. A survey of 239 commercial kidney donors in Sargodha district found that 90 per cent were illiterate, 66 per cent bonded labourers and 93 per cent sold their kidney in order to pay off debts. The average price paid to such donors for the sale of their kidney ranged from Rs50,000 to Rs200,000, leaving a handsome margin for middlemen as well as the doctors and hospitals involved |
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