Ethical and Legal Aspects of Required Request for Organ Donation

The demand for organs is ever increasing globally and even after coming out with many innovative measures to deal, the scarcity of organs continues to be of major concern for both developing and developed nations. This is a review research article wherein articles were searched using ‘Google’ search engine and hard copies available in the library of medical college. The articles were selectively filtered based on full text availability and access to references and a total of 20 articles were reviewed to study various ethical and legal complications arising out of required request for organ donation. Required request though initially seemed to be a very effective measure to overcome the shortage of organs, it has its issues which are highly debatable with respect to conflicts of treating doctor, psychological aspects of family members of patient, economic constraints and rights of donor. It is better to adopt strategies which are widely accepted and are less controversial before going for required request.