Organ donat
are low.
However, countries like Sri Lanka and India are
major global donors. While in India organ selling is
legally banned, it is a lucrative trade. Not only are
kidneys, corneas, blood and tissues exported from
India, the country is also infamous for supplying
skeletons and bones. Sri Lanka officially is entitled to
supply organs to many countries, and thus, has turned
into the biggest global supplier of eyes.
Many dictatorial regimes have been accused to
forceful tissue and organ harvesting by human
rights groups, which allege that political prisoners
become involuntary donors, and often die from the
experience.
BID FOR TRANSPARENCY
The existence of the black market is often justified
for the ends it serves. Going by the huge supply
gap, many patients die while on the waiting list. But
doctors, activists and other civil society groups have
been fighting to evolve a sustainable system that
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