ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION IN NIGERIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL REGIME

Abstract

Organ donation and transplantation is one of those topical issues that are on the front burner in modern medicine due to the increasing need to save lives resulting from organ damage. It is a medical procedure that predates modern medicine but has attracted sufficient attention largely because of the exacerbating health deteriorations of people which has increasingly birthed human trafficking and organ harvesting. There seems to be more need for human organs than the availability of organs and the procedures undertaken in securing the organs to save human lives have generated a lot of legal and ethical concerns. This article provides the historical springboard of organ donation, the advent in Nigeria and critically analyzes the legal framework on organ donation and transplantation in Nigeria. The researcher has adopted the doctrinal method of research in this article and has proffered some recommendations considered German and plausible in handling the various nagging issues on the subject matter in Nigeria.