Associate Professor Lee Wei Ling, the director of the National Neuroscience Institute and daughter of Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, in a letter to the Straits Times on Feb 6 opined that an organ is no different from a life-saving drug and urged the Singapore government to legalise organ trading to overcome the republic's chronic organ shortage.

Currently, under Singapore's controversial Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota), organs are allowed to be removed from brain-dead patients who are not Muslims, unless patients opt out.