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The Awareness and the acceptance of the laws of posthumous organ donation. Key points addressed under each article: 1 - Possibility of organ donation to any child of Egyptian mother and a foreign father. 2 - Severe penalties for those involved in illegal for-profit transplantation (including long jail sentences and considerable fines). 3 - The expenses of organ transplantation for those who cannot afford are to be covered by the government. 4 - Transfer of an organ or tissue from a dead body is not to be allowed until death is confirmed by a triple committee of specialized doctors in neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery and anesthesia. 5 - Live organ donation is only allowed between Egyptians and without any payment to the donor. 6 - Organ donation could be permitted to non-relatives if the patient is in urgent need for transplantation. 7 - Procurement of an organ or part of an organ or tissue from a person without valid evidence of death would be punished by the penalty of premediated murder as stipulated in article 230