KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan lawmakers passed legislation on Thursday to ban any trade in human body parts, after a series of media reports about criminals using force and trickery to take people's organs.
Download logo Parliament has passed the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill 2022 setting tough penalties for dealing in human organs for commercial purposes. The Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2022 seeks to establish a legal framework for organ, cell and tissue transplant in Uganda. The Bill also sought to regulate the […]
Uganda's minister of health on Tuesday tabled a bill before the country's parliament seeking to legalize human organ donation and transplant. Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health presented the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2021 for first reading. The Speaker of Parliament Anita Among referred the bill to the…
Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 26 2021
Summary
Prof Joloba asked government to provide them with at least $100m (Shs354 billion) to expand the facility to avoid heavy spending by Ugandans when they travel abroad for organ transplant services.
Makerere University has established a facility to store body parts for people who need transplants and other medical interventions, the developers revealed yesterday.
The development comes a few weeks after Parliament enacted a law criminalising human sacrifice and the June 2020 Cabinet approval of the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Tissue Transplant Bill, 2020.
Presenting to officials from the university and the National Research and Innovations Fund (NRIF) yesterday, Prof Moses Joloba, the lead investigator in the banking of body parts, said they have laid down clear strategies to survive the ethical and social concerns around their development.