ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Health Minister Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani on Wednesday said the government would support efforts to promote cadaver transplantation in the country.

Chairing the fifth meeting of the Monitoring Authority for Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues here on Wednesday, the minister directed the health ministry to initiate establishment of a fund which would provide support for transplant and post-transplant care to the needy patients.

Cadaver transplantation is a process where healthy organs from patients who are declared brain dead are retrieved and transplanted in patients with end stage disease.

The minister said the government would try its best to put an end to the menace of ‘kidney bazaar’, adding that it was the need of the hour to present a better image of the country as the world was looking at Pakistan.

Mr Jakhrani directed the meeting to prepare a protocol for declaration of brain death by the monitoring authority, adding that arrangements for liver transplantation should be made available across the country.