HC: Minor can’t risk life giving liver to dad
Rosy.Sequeira@timesgroup.com
Mumbai : Observing that a minor’s life cannot be endangered, Bombay high court on Friday refused to allow a 16-year-old to donate a part of her liver to her father who is critically unwell in a Parel hospital.
“We are concerned about the minor and are not inclined to grant relief,” said a vacation bench of Justices Anil Menon and Nitin Borkar. Her petition challenged the May 11 order of the state authorisation committee headed by the director, Directorate of Medical Education and Research —the appropriate authority under The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994—rejecting her application to grant permission for the transplant.
The girl had filed the petition stating father is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis decompensated and advised liver transplant. The hospital committee was not accepting her application for organ donation.
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