CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The U.K. government on Sunday announced new plans to change the law for organ and tissue donation to address the urgent need for organs within Indian-origin communities in the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spain had the highest donor rate in the world, 46.9 per million people in the population, in 2017.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tamil Nadu received the ‘Best State award’ for organ donation, by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Detailed explanation-4: -Over 100,000 Americans await organ transplants and over 6,000 die annually while waiting. From an economic perspective the decades-long organ shortage has a simple cause: paying organ donors is illegal. Price controls predictably produce shortages.

Detailed explanation-5: -France joined the list of countries which have made organ donation mandatory after the death of a person. The new ‘presumed consent’ law assumes that the deceased person agrees to have their organs donated, even if the individual’s immediate family is against it.