Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – 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 Centre for s in Hanoi on March 18.
Currently, Vietnam has
19 organ transplantation centres with almost 3,700 cases conducted, of which
3,514 were .
Director of the
national coordinating centre Trinh Hong Son said that the biggest difficulty
facing Vietnam is the shortage of organs and tissues for transplantation.
Tens of patients with
brain death are reported at hospitals nationwide each day, but few of them
register for .
Besides the connection
between 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 boost
connection between those centres to achieve faster and more effective organ
transplant coordination.
Deputy Director of the
national coordinating centre Nguyen Hoang Phuc stated that Vietnam issued the
Law on Human Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation in 2006.
However, the law lacks
policies in support for alive donors as well as donors after brain death and
their relatives, and regulations on the operation of coordinating organisations
and the involvement of humanitarian support funds for patients who need organ
and tissue transplantation, he emphasised.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
