For some known and other unknown reasons, the bill on human organ transplant is delayed in the People's Assembly (parliament). Whenever someone tries to bring this bill to light, he is doomed to failure. When Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi announced donating his own eyes after his death, this was not enough to give the kiss of life to the bill! With each new parliamentary session, we hear reports about an imminent "release" of the bill. However, we discover at the end of the session that such reports are nothing but deception!
The last one to speak about this draft law was Hamdi al-Sayed, head of the Egyptian Medical Association, who said two days ago that the bill would be passed in the current parliamentary session that ends in July. He added that no one would dare this time delay it. We hope that al-Sayed would take the step he knows well that some will try hardly to hinder it whatever the means!
This may be an appropriate occasion to narrate a story that has recently started in London. In the east of the British capital, a girl called Vicki Johnson had a car accident on her way to the railway. Johnson had a total physical disability. She has been breathing artificially for two weeks between life and death. Every time she recovers consciousness, she recommended her parents to raise the respirators if her comma exceeded 15 days, and donate her organs to the needy. It seems that doctors have despaired of the possibility that Johnson, 23, could have a normal life again. The parents have already raised the respirators after two weeks and donated a lobe of her liver to a little girl, who was on the brink of death. They have donated the other lobe to a fifty-year-old woman, heart to a sixty-year-old woman, pancreas to a forty-year-old man and two kidneys to another two women. It is said that Johnson's parents will donate her eyes, intestine and several patches of skin to other patients who were on the waiting list. The world papers said dead Johnson gave life to seven people! I narrate this story to show that we should pass the bill on human organ transplant!
