Although it is defined as almost impossible, given the highly specialized requirements involving extraction and preservation of a human body, the ghost of organ trafficking has re-emerged in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of the alleged corpse of 10 year old girl, Carla Massiel Cabrera Reyes, reported missing in June 2015.
Professional transplantation of organs and tissues explain that removal of a human body means having a highly specialized human and technological equipment; a laboratory histocompatibility, which for cadaveric donation there is only one in the country located in the Hospital General Health Plaza and necessary for proper organ perfusion before removing tools, because otherwise it is damaged.
Dominican Republic has about 15 trasplant?logos surgeons and with no more than five health centers, recognized, with ability to extract, to preserve and transplant an organ, although stories of child abduction and trafficking of their organs arise from time to time in the country, with no official confirmation about it.
police investigations, released Listin Diario, detailed that the body organs or bones found by police investigators in a place called La Cuaba, from kilometer 23 of the Duarte highway, tracks offered one suspect's death Carla girl Massiel, now in prison, were extracted and sold to a health center.
Stories linked to this type of practice have emerged at different times in the country and the media collected similar cases in the world, although not confirmed raise concerns among the population.
Interviewed separately, doctors Fernando Morales Billini, director of the National Institute for the Coordination of Transplants (INCORT) and transplant?logo Jiomar Figueroa, are impossible extraction of organs for trafficking in the country and attributed to "fables" stories that have emerged respect.
Dr. Morales Billini, in a communication sent to this newspaper, recalled that for a person to donate their organs should die in an intensive care unit connected to a mechanical ventilator, which will permit even though the person has dead, their bodies to monitor oxygen, so it is impossible to use organs taken out of that circumstance.
He said also requires a compatibility between the donor and recipient to the transplanted organ is not in addition to a complex infrastructure ranging from operating theaters highly specialized, tests to rule out tumor and viral transmitter, refused to appropriate means of transport for which successfully achieved a correct procedure donation and transport.
INCORT director explains that the extraction of human organs for transplantation in another person is a highly complex process in which about 30 trained to perform a kidney transplant specialists involved; 80 in a heart and about 100 health professionals in liver transplantation transplant.
He says it is worrying that every so often myths and legends arise in the population about the abduction of children or adults to realizarles removal of organs for transplantation, which has been classified as urban legends, creating anxiety and fear in society, affecting the process donation and transplantation and a negative impact on patients who need an organ to live.
He says that in his more than 30 years of experience "We have never seen a single case of organ trafficking by criminal kidnapping has been established, but we have seen how such rumors cause a degree of terror in the population, able to discourage donations ". He said that few institutions more prestigious and better organized networks of organ donation and, in his opinion, information of this kind directly affect patients who need an organ to live.
Law 329-98
In the country Law No. 329-98, of August 11, 1998, regulates the donation and legacy, mining, conservation and exchange for transplantation of human organs and tissues.
In Article 1. It states that aims to map out the rules of law governing the donation and legacy, extraction, conservation, exchange for transplantation of human organs and tissues for therapeutic and scientific purposes, as well as various aspects of these objectives .
Article 2 states that you may not receive any compensation for the donation of organs or tissues.
The law also provides both economic sanctions such as criminal in case of commercialization.
Nevertheless, there have been reports, unconfirmed, of people who have sold one of their two kidneys to wealthy families financially in exchange for money or have donated blood in exchange for financial compensation.
