Nearly 20,000 Vietnamese register for organ donation
Nearly 20,000 people have registered to donor their organs after death so far, a surge compared with that of five years ago, heard an international conference on human organ transplant coordination held by the National Coordinating Centree for Human Organ Transplants in Hanoi on March 18.
Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 20,000 people have registered to donor theirorgans after death so far, a surge compared with that of five years ago, heardan international conference on human organ transplant coordination held by the NationalCoordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplants in Hanoi on March 18.
Currently, Vietnam has19 organ transplantation centres with almost 3,700 cases conducted, of which3,514 were kidney transplant.
Director of thenational coordinating centre Trinh Hong Son said that the biggest difficultyfacing Vietnam is the shortage of organs and tissues for transplantation.
Tens of patients withbrain death are reported at hospitals nationwide each day, but few of themregister for organ donation.
Besides the connectionbetween organ transplantation centres has yet to meet requirements, Son added.
Sharing the same view,Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Viet Tien stressed the need for Vietnam to boostconnection between those centres to achieve faster and more effective organtransplant coordination.
Deputy Director of thenational coordinating centre Nguyen Hoang Phuc stated that Vietnam issued theLaw on Human Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation in 2006.
However, the law lackspolicies in support for alive donors as well as donors after brain death andtheir relatives, and regulations on the operation of coordinating organisationsand the involvement of humanitarian support funds for patients who need organand tissue transplantation, he emphasised.-VNA
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