MP Abdel Hamid El-Sheikh, a member of the Health Affairs Committee in Egypt’s Parliament, said that the country has improved at human organs transplantation. El-Sheikh said that Egypt has a law governing the transplantation process and sets controls and strict penalties to avoid trafficking. 5, which prohibits the buying or selling of human organ or tissues, however, poverty has driven some Egyptians to sell body parts in illicit transactions. While in May 2017, the Parliament’s Legislative Committee approved amendments to Egypt’s Organ Transplant Law which stipulates drafting harsher penalties into the law regulating organ transplantation in Egypt. Amid the rise of organ trafficking in Egypt, the country in 2013 established the first Egyptian Association for Organ Transplantation to have an effective role to avoid medical errors and help in the treatment of urgent cases, which reached the level of various injuries to more than 3 million cases.

Source: Egypt Independent April 07, 2018 15:11 UTC