Anton Gerashchenko allowed to cut out his organs
Today, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on health care and organ transplantation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The morning session began with the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada formally opening the meeting, congratulating everyone present on Vyshyvanka Day. He then recalled that the deputies had begun reviewing the law on organ transplantation and donation yesterday, which they plan to continue today.
Thus, deputy Anton Gerashchenko said that in the event of his death, he would not mind if his organs were donated.
“If we pass this law, I, Anton Gerashchenko, will be among the first to sign that if I suddenly die, let my organs go to ensure that other people can be saved and they can live,” the politician said.
In turn, deputy Andrei Shipko said that he wants to dispel all the gossip around this bill, saying that if the law is adopted, no one will trade and export the organs of Ukrainians without their consent.
He also noted that the extraction of organs and materials for transplantation from persons who died as a result of hostilities is prohibited.
The flamboyant Oleg Lyashko spoke out against the adoption of the law.
“Today, the key problem for millions of Ukrainians is inaccessible medicine and inaccessible medicines. Ulyana Suprun is popularly called Doctor Death, and people associate the worst phenomena in medicine with her. In all my meetings, wherever I go, people raise one question: “How can we cure our children? How can we heal ourselves? How can you buy a pack of tablets that costs 700 or 1000 hryvnia for one and a half thousand hryvnia?”
Therefore, the Radical Party team is proposing a real plan that will enable people to get affordable medications. Not the profanity that the authorities are now engaged in, including by pushing such laws, but real concrete solutions aimed at ensuring that millions of people can buy medicine, be cured and save their lives. Exemption from maximum permissible limits, control over pricing, limitation of profitability, criminal liability for counterfeiting of medicines. This is what Ukrainians need, and not the deception that you staged here,” Lyashko said.
As a result, the bill was supported by 255 deputies, with 226 required.
Anton Gerashchenko has agreed to have his organs removed.