Lagos Assembly considers bill criminalising illegal organ harvesting

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The bill passed the second reading during Tuesday's plenary

A bill to ‘regulate’ human organs harvesting and transplantation has scaled its second reading in the

Mr Onafeko said the title of the bill was ‘Lagos State Organ Harvest and Transplantation Bill 2021’ . The Chairman, House Committee on Health, Hakeem Sokunle, explained that the bill captured the legal framework for the regulation of organ transplantation from donors either living or dead to patients in need.

“Under its offence and penalties’ clause, the bill states that a person who removes the organ of another person for a reason other than for therapeutic purposes commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a term of 10 years without an option of fine.

 

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