The proliferation of complex diseases globally has created a search for organ donors in different parts of the world.
Patients, who are in need of organs for transplantation, move from
country to country in search of donors who can provide them with a
match, in most cases they buy. This has led to a global human market
which is said to be one of the reasons for health tourism.
India has been identified as one of the countries enjoying high
patronage in this market as there is a shortage of organs for the
purpose of transplantation worldwide.
Following the massive influx of organ seekers in the western
countries into the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion
people, the government of India shut its doors to illegal organs
transplantation.
This has led to the emergence of another market controlled by
bio-tech companies who are involved in embryo trafficking whereby the
eggs of women are harvested from IVF clinics and exported to western
countries.
However, as a result of economic effects of this trend, a new
decision to create a ‘human market’ was reached. This new trend allows
scientists to clone organs of the body from eggs. This process is
called therapeutic cloning.
Although, this new system seems like a solution to the problem,
there is a far reaching consequence which poses great danger to the
lives of egg donors.
The
Chairman of the Global People Alliance, Philip Njemanze, raised an alarm that these biotech companies
are now targeting Africa, particularly Nigeria, to raise a market which
would supply 100 million eggs annually.
The problem is, who are you going to get these eggs from? For you to
harvest the eggs, you have to administer a series of injections called
ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. This will stimulate the ovaries and
all the tissues in the body of the woman.
Stimulation of the tissues means all the cells, including existing
cancer cells, will grow. This will lead to a proliferation of cancer,
kidney failure, infertility, brain failure and eventually death.
In Europe, Britain, America and most of the developed Asian countries, this practice has been banned.
“The focus is now on Africa where they try to create a whole new
framework within Africa, so that it will be possible to come to Africa,
change the laws and make them legal, so the eggs can be harvested from
African women who will die 5 years down the line,” he stated.
Maputo Protocol: A Death Trap
Mr Njemanze also stated that the Protocol to the African Charter on
Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known
as Maputo Protocol, a 23 page document which guarantees comprehensive
rights to women in the areas of politics, reproduction and female
genital mutilation is a tool to create a new ‘human market’ in Nigeria
and a means to legislate the harvesting of eggs.
Maputo Protocol also advocates the ban of the Holy Bible or Quran in schools; it supports abortion and same sex marriage.
According to Njemanze, parts of the document have been integrated
into the National Health Bill as section 52 to 58 legalises organ
harvesting without the consent of the patient.
He added that the law had also been domesticated in Imo State via
the Imo State Law 7 which legalises abortion, same sex marriage, ban of
the Bible and Quran in schools.
He stated that Nigeria is the target market for this group of
biotech companies who want 100 million eggs a year which will come from
10 million women.
“The Nigerian government and Nigerian legislature are actually
assisting this process, though sometimes ignorantly and other times
knowingly,” he added.
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