CABINET Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon said, yesterday, that he was “perplexed” after reading recent media reports which suggested that there could be an industry building up around the sale of body parts. 

Such sale, illegal or otherwise, “is difficult to countenance,” he said, addressing the media at his usual post-Cabinet briefing in Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown.
“Then what is the ploy behind this heightened resort to the media to speak of sale of body parts?” Luncheon asked.
He remarked, “We, certainly, have less than the appropriate professional, technical, technological environment to have a robust transplant programme in Guyana.
“It doesn’t exist and, therefore, the notion of a market in parts to be transplanted would appear to be, on the surface, highly unusual, an activity that would be difficult to contemplate.
“I don’t believe that we have done ten transplants in Guyana of any sort. Most of the transplants, the very few that have taken place, have all been living related. I don’t know if we sell our kidneys to our families but, if that is the implication, then there still would be in the context of the few, literally few, transplants that have occurred, an extremely small market.
“I won’t be disparaging about other jurisdictions where these things are documented and such behaviour occurs and is an offence. But poor Guyana…all kinds of things we get accused for… but come on, let’s be realistic. Let’s be realistic,” he urged.