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Destination of organ transplant.
Organ or tissue is transplanted from dead to living organ or tissue transplanted from living to living when organ donor is dead – no moral concern arises. Transplant of organ from loving donor to another person must following criterias1. Risk if any to donor should be removed in such transplant. 2. Must be proportionately good if obtained by recipient. 3. Removal of organ must not seriously impair the donor's health or bodily function. 4. Prognosis of acceptance is good for recipient.; 5. donor must be informed of risk involved. 6. After receiving all information donor should give free decision & permission for donation of organ. . Transplants classified 1. Autograft - transplant of tissue to same person e.g. hair skin. 2. Allograft - organ transplant from genetically non identical member of same species. 3. Isograft - transplanted from a donor to genetically identical receipient. 4. Xeno - one species to another. 5. Split - deceased donor one or more recipient. 6. Domino - arstic fibrosis. Problems - Economic issues 1) Transplant of embryological tissues from animal to human is developing rapidly since transplants might allow dangerous pathogens from animal to human. Safeguard should include improved test for pathogen protocols to quantine patients. Creation of colonies of clean animals is needed. 2) Tissue transplant from animals is violence towards animals & Jainism believes in non-violence, compassion. Towards animals or any Jiva. 3) It is violence toward animal for material gain. 4) Stealing of valuable life threatening organs from human when they are in coma or during operation, breaks vow of non-stealing of Jainas. It stresses the need for introspection on above issues enhancing the importance of values that are lost in modern world. 5) While transplant about distribution & assignment of organs to waiting recipient essentially number of recipient exceeds number of available organs. While no perfect system can ever exist. 6) Plan of assignment should not be discriminatory based on race, sex, age, social status or utilitarian ground based on work capacity social usefulness, but should strive on to recognize intrinsic value of each person.
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