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Reuters
Eliasvillea Valema
Kampala — Health Minister said a law was introduced in the Uganda Parliament to regulate the harvesting and trading of human organs and tissues as authorities headed for restraint. Said. An illegal market growing in the country with parts of the body such as the kidneys.
In Uganda, there was a public protest over the trade in organs and tissues from unwilling donors.
Local media reports indicate that a Ugandan woman hired for domestic work in the Middle East is fooled into receiving medical procedures to remove her kidneys against her will. You may.
Some hospitals, including public hospitals, are also involved in illegal transactions, media reports say.
The bill was submitted to Congress and sent to the Home Health Commission for scrutiny, Health Minister Jane Ruth Asen told local television on Tuesday.
The proposed law, the first in Uganda, aims to regulate all activities related to organ and tissue donations and transplants, and also provides penalties for various violations. ..
This is "to ensure that we address the issue of illegal transactions that people keep talking about from time to time," Aceng said.
This prohibits commerce in human organs and tissues, including sales or purchases, and penalties include life imprisonment or fines of up to 2 billion shillings ($ 535,000).
($ 1 = 3,735.0000 Ugandan shilling) (reported by Elias Biryabarema, edited by Hereward Holland and Angus MacSwan)
