By: Times News Service Tuesday 23/March/2021
Muscat: An app is being developed to make it easier for people to donate organs, which will be given, once they pass away, to patients in need of transplants.
The app is being developed by the Ministry of Health, which is running campaigns of the importance of organ donation, by people who are alive.
“There is no source of human organs apart from the donors themselves,” said Dr Ahmed Al Busaidi of the ministry’s National Organ Transplant Programme. “These organs cannot be taken from them without their consent, or that of their guardian after they have passed away. To receive an organ in exchange for payment is also illegal: this is prohibited by trafficking laws in Oman and other countries.”
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