Rajasthan yet to give nod for swap kidney transplant.
The country’s laws are posing a hurdle to what can be India’s first international organ swap surgery.
More than a month after DNA reported on the kidney swap plea of two families —one from Rajasthan and the other from Kenya, the patients are still waiting for permission.
Aarif, 35, and his wife Sabira Khokar, 30, met the Kenyans -- siblings Esther and Ann Githinji and their mother Agnes at a suburban dialysis centre.
Esther, 32, has been suffering from chronic renal failure since 2003. She came to Hinduja Hospital last March. Esther’s body rejected a kidney from her mother Agnes, 60, earlier and Ann, 34, is a prospective donor. “Ann’s kidney cannot be used. But Sabira’s kidney will suit Esther,” said nephrologist Dr Jatin Kothari.
Sabira is willing to donate her kidney to Aarif, who is suffering from chronic renal failure. In 2012, the families found through a test that Sabira’s kidney will work well for Esther and Ann’s for Aarif. Sabira can give Aarif her kidney without any problem but in donating it to Esther, she can save two live.
As the transplantation surgery is to be conducted in Maharashtra – at Mumbai’s Hinduja and BSES MG Hospital, the Maharashtra State Authorisation Committee’s nod is required. The panel has sought a no-objection certificate from their respective governments. The Kenyan Embassy’s no-objection certificate (NOC) was procured. Both families have camped themselves in Jaipur. But health officials are not keen to give one. Several states are grappling with legal issues on organ donors who are not related to the recipient.
Both the patients are in a bad shape. “If a transplant doesn’t happen soon, Aarif’s life may be in danger,” said Dr Kothari.
Sabira said all the paper work was harassment. “The last option is to go to court.”
Dr Randhir Rao, additional medical superintendent of Sawai Man Singh Hospital and the coordinator of the state authorisation committee for kidney transplantation permissions, said they are following the Supreme Court guidelines. “This is the first time such a case has come to us. We are only asking for more documents before the committee decides on the issue.”
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