India, with its history of organ trade rackets, should be cautious before proposing incentives that may be on the slippery slope towards organ commerce.

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In the last four decades, the concept of "brain death" has been legalised and accepted in many countries. However, in spite of the legal sanction as well as sustained campaigning, the number of such donors is limited.

A majority of transplants are now done with organs retrieved from such brain dead individuals. The need for organs, however, far outweighs their availability and a large number of patients still die waiting for organs.

The Indian kidney bazaar, as it was crudely described at some stage in its history, refuses to die down. The latest expose comes from Mumbai, where a leading doctor from a reputed hospital was arrested for his involvement in a well-organised racket.