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Union Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, who leaves for London tomorrow, said today he would urge British authorities to chalk out a joint plan to combat organ sales after a sting operation in the UK linked them to Punjab.
‘‘Procuring organs from live donors has to be dealt with sternly. I am leaving for London tomorrow and will urge British authorities to chalk out a plan to combat trade in human organs,’’ Dhindsa, also secretary of the SAD, said.
A British doctor, B.S. Makkar, was on Friday found to have acted unprofessionally in connection with procurement of organs from donors living in poverty in India.
In another case, a British Sikh patient died during a kidney transplant in Jalandhar, news reports said.
The reported death of 69-year-old Darshan Sandhu, a resident of Coventry in the Midlands, at a hospital in Jalandhar will figure in hearings involving a second doctor before the GMC in October.
