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Japan ends ban on child organ transplants

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-07-13 13:43

TOKYO: The Japanese parliament on Monday endorsed a law, clearing the way for organ transplants in Japan for people under 15 and recognizing brain-dead people as legally dead.

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The enactment came when the upper house plenary session passed a bill to revise the 1997 Organ Transplant Law and allow organ donations with family consent regardless of age. The 1997 law forbids organ donations from brain-dead children under 15.

The lower house, dominated by the ruling bloc, already passed the law on June 18.