The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recently issued notice to the State Health and Family Welfare Secretary to submit a report within four weeks over an illegal kidney transplant in Bargarh district.
The NHRC gave the direction following rights activist Akhand of Civil Society Forum on Human Rights (CSFHR) lodged a petition before the NHRC in the matter.
Akhand brought to the notice of the NHRC that the victim, Anil Swamy, lodged an FIR in Bargarh Police Station on January 2 last that his neighbours Raghabram Dora, Dasarathi Dora, Kanhu Charan Dora and their family members used deceitful tactics to get one of his kidneys removed from his body without his consent and got it transplanted in the body of Raghabram at the Apollo Hospital in Bhubaneswar.
As Raghabram needed a kidney transplant, the three brothers planned to get it from Anil, who at the time was suffering from stomach ailments. They forged documents to prove Anil was one of their brothers as a kidney donation can only be accepted from a relative. As per the documents, Anil was named Jayaram Dora and presented as the younger brother of Raghabram, alleged Akhand. Even, the petitioner alleged that they prepared fake ID card, bank passbook and some other documents on which Anil’s operation was conducted at the Apollo Hospital. The transplant took place in 2013. But after operation, the victim realized that one of his kidneys is missing.
Akhand alleged that the officials of the Directorate of Medical Education and Training (DMET) and operating hospital Apollo are allegedly involved in the matter. The DMET is the authority to give No Objection Certificate (NOC) in the kidney transplantation. Then how DMET gave permission for transplant of kidney without proper verification of documentsIJ Akhand said.