Pilot organ donation program expanded
By Cai Wenjun |
February 7, 2013, Thursday
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CHINA'S health authorities, along with the Red Cross, are working on an organ donation and distribution program nationwide after piloting it in 19 provincial areas in the last two years.
Under the Ministry of Health regulations and guidelines set by the World Health Organization, the Chinese will have priority for the donated organs.
Officials from the China Human Organ Donation Management Center said that a donated organ database is being created.
In China, live organ donation is only allowed between spouses, direct family members or collateral kinship, and between step-parents and step-children.
National incentive policies to donors from poor families will also be released this year.
They will address issues of reimbursement toward funeral expenses, the last medical bill and financial aid package to family members, said officials from the Red Cross Society of China, which runs the organ management center.
Previously, there were no incentives or aid to poor organ donors, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.
Since 2010 when the pilot scheme was launched, 627 people donated organs, saving the lives of 1,713 patients as of last month.
Gao Xinpu, from the organ management center, said they were working on details of organ donation and distribution.
An organ donation foundation will be set up at the national and regional level to support family members of poor donors.
The detailed incentives will be decided by the provincial governments after evaluating the financial status of the donors' families and the size of the financial support.
Money for the foundation will be raised through the welfare lottery and donations.
In November, Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu said that a proper organ donation and distribution system will eventually help China phase out its reliance on organs from executed prisoners.
China passed a law in 2007 which strengthened supervision of organ transplants but despite that it failed to solve problems such as questionable sources, an acute shortage of organs, and illegal organ dealings.
Each year, about 1.5 million people are on the waiting list for transplants in China, but only about 10,000 get one.
Under the Ministry of Health regulations and guidelines set by the World Health Organization, the Chinese will have priority for the donated organs.
Officials from the China Human Organ Donation Management Center said that a donated organ database is being created.
In China, live organ donation is only allowed between spouses, direct family members or collateral kinship, and between step-parents and step-children.
National incentive policies to donors from poor families will also be released this year.
They will address issues of reimbursement toward funeral expenses, the last medical bill and financial aid package to family members, said officials from the Red Cross Society of China, which runs the organ management center.
Previously, there were no incentives or aid to poor organ donors, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.
Since 2010 when the pilot scheme was launched, 627 people donated organs, saving the lives of 1,713 patients as of last month.
Gao Xinpu, from the organ management center, said they were working on details of organ donation and distribution.
An organ donation foundation will be set up at the national and regional level to support family members of poor donors.
The detailed incentives will be decided by the provincial governments after evaluating the financial status of the donors' families and the size of the financial support.
Money for the foundation will be raised through the welfare lottery and donations.
In November, Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu said that a proper organ donation and distribution system will eventually help China phase out its reliance on organs from executed prisoners.
China passed a law in 2007 which strengthened supervision of organ transplants but despite that it failed to solve problems such as questionable sources, an acute shortage of organs, and illegal organ dealings.
Each year, about 1.5 million people are on the waiting list for transplants in China, but only about 10,000 get one.
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