Andhra Pradesh

Kidney racket: who are the culprits?

The Organ Transplant Act may be sacrosanct but rings hallow in a country where a large parallel economy makes a mockery of every thing and is obviously responsible for continuing mass poverty.

In the end it is the grinding poverty that makes a man sell his kidney. In India the Act has not been properly implemented.

The State does not have the money or the infrastructure to implement it.

A paradigm change in the way the government treats medico-legal matters in our present socio-economic condition is the need of the hour.

Removing the organ without the patients consent or by making him unconscious needs serious action under the law.

But, quite often the actual culprits are the recipients and the donors, not the doctors.

The medical community is enraged over the kidney racket and the day is not far off when the surgeons may refuse to conduct kidney transplants, due to fear.

M. Satyanarayana Rao,

Hanamkonda

No doubt the NREGS job scheme is largely successful but still serious misgivings persist. The scheme is mainly meant for the poverty ridden sections.

They constitute half the population in every village. The unprecedented flow of funds should help create real “capital works” –assets like school and hospital buildings, cement lined common wells, overhead water tanks, drainage works constructed with cement concrete and lasting for two or more generations.

They should be backed by modern engineering expertise.

The works should be certified as to their standard by reputed engineering boards constituted at district level. The proposal to introduce e-money for payment of rural wages in highly commendable.

The significance of these Central schemes to transform rural India and bring modernity should be properly appreciated by one and all.

S.B.V.R. Shastry,

Warangal

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