According to a World Health Organization advisor, a number of Malaysians gone overseas for transplantation for their organs were found infected with HIV, hepatitis and a number of other problems.

Prof Dr. Francis Delmonico has been protesting against the criminal practices undertaken while the organs are being supplied, wherein, the tainted organs are approved as such.

He is seeking the introduction of a regulation which can check any such practices worldwide.

“It is time to amend laws and establish a full-time agency to have more and ethical organ donations in the country”, he said.

He also urged the authorities to check for the avoidance in the donations, coming in from cardiac dead patients.

Dr. Delmonico, a WHO adviser on human organ transplantation, said that the organs provided are hardly scrutinized. The organ pools do not provide any guarantee for the quality.

He addressed the co-speakers at a forum on “Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism – The Need for Regulatory and Legislative Control” in the 13th Scientific Meeting under the Malaysian Society of Transplantation at the Grand Dorsett Hotel.

Dr. Delmonico said that the marketing of the organs is violating the Istanbul Declaration.