Punjab Minister for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education, Khawaja Salman Rafique has said that the Punjab Human Organs Transplantation Act 2010 would be amended as per present day needs and the draft PHOTA-2017 would be presented in the Punjab Assembly for approval. He stated this while chairing a high level meeting to discuss the proposed amendments in PHOTA-2010, here today.
It was decided that the new definitions of donor, recipient and the health facility where the transplantation would be performed, will be incorporated in the act. For this purpose, legal experts are working on the proposed amendments in the PHOTA-2010. Detailed deliberations were made on the proposed amendments in the various clauses of the act during the meeting.