Delhi High Court has dismissed the plea of a Pakistani national, who is battling for life due to chronic kidney and liver failure in New Delhi, seeking permission to undergo transplantation of liver tissue donated by one of her family friends based in Karachi. “The authorisation committee as well as the appellate authority had held that they could not rule out possibility of a commercial transaction between the two. The petitioner has not been able to establish any link or connection or any affection or attachment or special reason as to why the donor has consented to donate the liver tissue to the recipient,” the court said. She had said she would donate one of her kidneys for the surgery but as per doctors, she cannot donate liver tissues which was needed for the transplant and Karachi-based Humaira Muddaser, one of her friends, was willing to donate liver tissues for the surgery on “humanitarian ground”. 40-year-old Afsan had told the court that her husband was diagnosed with acute chronic liver failure at a hospital in Karachi, after which she came to Delhi and doctors here had advised kidney and liver transplant for him.

Source: Indian Express September 19, 2016 15:36 UTC