Biomedical Recipient Rights

[Funkadelia]

Category: Human Rights   
Strength:  Significant   
Proposed by: [nation]Mousebumples[/nation]

Description: THE WORLD ASSEMBLY:

UNDERSTANDS the importance in assuring and protecting the rights of individuals receiving medical treatments.

SPECIFIES that “biomedical tissues” shall include, at minimum, the following:


Blood and blood products, such as platelets and plasma.


Organs, such as the kidneys, liver, and heart.


Stem cells, such as embryonic stem cells, those found in the bone marrow and the umbilical cord, and other adult stem cells.
 DETAILS that "biomedical procedures" shall include, at minimum the donation, harvesting, transplantation, or transfusion of biomedical tissues.

DECLARES that prospective recipients of biomedical tissues shall not be discriminated against without a valid medical rationale, such as blood and tissue typing or the presence of a dangerous contagion.

REQUIRES that the process for biomedical procedures shall involve:


Ensuring that the recipient is healthy enough to undergo the procedure.


Techniques that are as humane as is practicable using appropriate sterile technique for the procedure in question.


Testing and typing of the recipient in order to minimize negative transfusion reactions and biomedical tissue rejection.
MANDATES that prospective recipients shall be given all medically relevant facts regarding the biomedical procedure(s) and tissue(s) they are to receive prior to obtaining their uncoerced, informed consent.


A legally completed advance health care directive (e.g. living will) shall be followed in order to respect the wishes of the individual in question.


In the absence of a legally completed advance health care directive, WA member nations may permit an individual's legal guardian or next-of-kin to provide uncoerced, informed consent on behalf of a recipient in the event that the individual in question is under the threshold of majority or is otherwise unable to understand the information in question.
INSTRUCTS the World Health Authority to allocate an appropriate portion of their budget to assist with providing preventative and other necessary treatments with regards to biomedical treatments in nations that are otherwise unable to afford them.

ALLOWS for WA member nations and their health care systems to triage prospective recipients based on geographic location, if the biomedical tissue in question may decrease in quality during the transport process, and other medically relevant factors (e.g. medical need).

PERMITS individual WA member nations and their health care systems to delay or defer a recipient's biomedical procedure(s) due to a co-existing medical condition, which may place the treatment tissues at risk of rejection or infection.


If such a medical condition exists, all reasonable attempts shall be made at treatment so as to allow the transplant to occur.


WA member nations may elect to match donors and recipients based on such a medical condition in the event of biomedical tissue shortages, if such a match is determined to be in the best medical interests of the recipient.

[Funkadelia]

Biomedical Recipient Rights was passed 8,682 votes to 1,020.