Ekhorutomwen Gabriel Ekhator (University of Benin), A Critical Appraisal of the Legal Framework on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation in Nigeria, 2 Lawrit J. L. 1 (2022):
The advancement in medical sciences in recent times has brought succor to those suffering from the failure of vital organs. Organ transplantation has become a rapidly growing and imperative surgical specialty in the last four decades as transplantation of solid organs has become the preferred treatment for end-stage renal, hepatic, cardiac, and pulmonary disease. Although organ transplantation has been widely accepted in contemporary times all over the world as a safe medical procedure, it is fraught with some challenges in Nigeria, ranging from a lack of suitable structures and frameworks for snowballing the supply of needed organs to legal liability issues arising from the ruin or negligent misdirection of donated organs, commercialization of organs, organ trafficking as well as ethical, social and religious beliefs.