Guangdong launches trial for organ donation

By Jane Chen | April 21, 2010, Wednesday |

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SOUTH China's Guangdong Province yesterday launched a trial to better manage organ donations and make sure patients most in need receive a transplant.

Guangdong is among 10 cities and provinces in a pilot program designed to test a new national post-death organ donation system comprising administration, decisions on organ recipients, enhanced after-surgery visits and subsidies for needy donors, today's Guangzhou Daily reported.

The system, run by the national and provincial Red Cross, will follow international practices for open, fair and impartial organ management and should help reduce the black market for body parts that exists in the face of a severe organ shortage, officials said.

Organ donation remains voluntary and unpaid in China, they stressed.

Guangdong has set up a committee to manage the organ donation work as well as build a provincial databank for donors and recipients, according to Xu Huozhou, Guangdong Red Cross's vice chairman.

The committee will have branches in 10 cities in the province including Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Organ donation has shrunk in the province, according to its vice health director Liao Xinbo.

Last year, 1,118 people received organ transplants compared with 2,034 in 2004, he said.

Nationwide, 1.5 million Chinese need organ transplants every year, but only 10,000 operations are performed because of a shortage of donors.

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Guangdong launches trial for organ donation

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