How to avoid it?

As we mentioned in the entry of the origins of Organ Trafficking, it began because of an over demand of organs and the selfishness among the individuals. So, in order to avoid the organ trafficking, we must satisfy its demand and improve our laws for the transplants to be easier. 

All over the world, several laws and agreements have been signed in order to punish the organ trafficking, but unfortunately in countries such as Mexico, India and Pakistan they should still be modified for improving their efficiency. For example, in Mexico there’s an inexistence of norms to classify the organ’s donation, they do not specify how a donation was unforced, and they do not even establish the medical conditions it must have. Mexican law case is so undefined that even though the importance of specifying the approved techniques to transplant an organ, there’s no law, norm or agreement concerning this essential topic.

There’s no doubt about the need to enforce and improve Mexican law in order to have a well-organized donation system. 

Also, as we mentioned it lately, our legislators have been working in several reforms concerning the topic; but, if demand is not satisfied, this type of organized crime will still occur around Mexican territory and surroundings. That is the reason why it is needed that the amount of people willing to donate their organs when they die increases immediately. For example, countries like Spain and Uruguay had done laws to force all their citizens that are not underage to be potential donors when they die, unless they had written before that they do not want to.

This law has been approved and applied on Spain, but, since it has recently been approved on Uruguay, it will be applied until next year (2013).

In Mexico City, as well as in Tijuana (a city of the State Baja California) it has also been approved and applied a law which determines that all the citizens overage will be donors when they die unless they had written the opposite before.

As we can notice, the laws and the supply of organs are very important factors to avoid the organ trafficking and if in our city or country does not exist any law that establishes that when we die we will be donors, we could tell our relatives to donate our organs when we die. With this simple action we could help a lot to avoid this crime.