DOES PAKISTAN

LAW PERMIT
HUMAN ORGANS
SELLING ?

➢ No, it doesn't
 Pakistan Act (2010) About
Human Organs Transplantation
❑ Pakistan law sets punishment for commercial dealings in human organs.–
Whoever,–
➢ Makes or receives any payment for the supply of, or for an offer to supply any
human organ.
➢ Seeks to find a person willing to supply for payment of any human organ .
➢Associates with or helps in any manner, in the removal of any human organ
without therapeutic purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to ten years and with fine which may extend to one million
rupees.
➢ Initiates or negotiates any arrangement involving the making of any
payment for the supply.
➢ Publishes or distributes any advertisement about trading
of human organs.
 WORLD HE ALTH ORGANISATION
GUIDING PRINCIPLE 5

According to the guiding principle 5 provided in

the WHO Guiding Principles, (as endorsed by
the 63rd World Health Assembly in 2010) :

Cells, tissues and organs should only be donated

freely, without any monetary payment or other
reward.

Payment for any human organ transplantation is

considered as human trafficking.

The ban on trading with human organs should

apply to all individuals and each region's
juridiction must set the methods of prohibition.
 ❑ The state council of China sets regulations on human

organs trade:

➢ No organization or individual may buy or sell human

organs in any form.

➢ Penalty for organ traders : doctors will have their

licences revoked, hospitals will be suspended from
IN CHINA transplant operations for 3 years and officials will be
fired.

➢ Fines up to 500 000 yuan and five to 10 years'

imprisonment

➢China banned the use or trade of organs from executed

prisoners from 2015.
 ❑ According to The National Organ
Transplant Act in 1984 :
➢ It is banned to sell or buy human
organs and tissues in the United
States.
IN USA
➢ Organs traders and violators are
subject to fines and imprisonment (up
to $50,000 and five years in prison)
 ❑ The United Kingdom enacted Human Organ Transplant Act
1989 :

➢ Prohibition of commercial dealings in human organs in

Great Britian or elsewhere.

➢ A person is guilty of human organs selling offences :

IN UK
three years of prison , a fine, or both.

➢ Life imprisonment for human organs harvesting.

 ❑ Iran is the only nation that allows organs to be bought
and sold for money.

➢ Due to lack of infrastructure to maintain an efficient

IN IRAN organ transplant system ,Iran enacted living non-

related donation (LNRD) of kidneys in 1988 .

➢ Thouhg Iran prohibits human organs trade with

foreingers, the online market is booming, and no one
is taking action.
 CONCLUSION

Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of human organ trade is universally condemned . However, despite the
efforts to stop such practice, the buying and selling of organs continues (mostly kidny organ ) including those who need to
improve their social status, individuals to survive or institutions requires fast organs supply . Thus, these practices are
against the law and must be eliminated.
References:

✓ Donor Alliance (2023). Can You Sell Organs in the United

States?.Selling Organs in the United States is Illegal.
✓ Iran International (2023). Iranians Selling Their Organs Abroad Due
To Poverty.

✓ Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament),( 2010) . THE TRANSPLANTATION OF

HUMAN ORGANS AND TISSUES ACT 2010 , the Gazette of
Pakistan (Extraordinary), pp.89-96.
✓ UK Public General Acts,
(1989). Human Organ Transplants Act 1989.1989 CHAPTER 31.
✓ Watts, J
(2007). China introduces new rules to deter human organ trade, 369(957
7),P1917-1918.
✓ WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION,( 2010). WHO GUIDI
NG PRINCIPLES ON HUMAN CELL, TISSUE AND ORGAN
TRANSPLANTATION1. PP. 1-9.
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