Human Organ Transplant Ordinance

Huang Jiefu, Vice Minister of Health, said that my country's first "Regulations on Human Organ Transplantation" are expected to be promulgated in the near future, which will regulate organ transplantation.

·my country will issue its first regulations on human organ transplantation to establish eight principles

The new regulations strictly prohibit the sale of organs

It is understood that the first regulations on human organ transplantation will Follow eight major principles, including voluntariness, informed consent, fairness and justice, technology access, non-commercialization, independent decision-making, etc. In view of the current tendency of domestic organ transplantation to be bought and sold, Huang Jiefu particularly emphasized the principle of non-commercialization: "In 1991, the World Health Organization adopted the guiding principles for human organ transplantation, which stipulates that the human body and its various parts should not become Commercial transactions, including advertising for and supplying organs, as well as payment and collection of money, should be prohibited. At the same time, any individual or institution involved in the organ transplant procedure is prohibited from receiving remuneration other than appropriate service fees.” Huang Jiefu said that the above principles are also cited in my country's newly formulated organ transplant regulations, which clearly stipulate that charges can be charged for organ harvesting, preservation, transportation and other items, but the organs themselves must not be sold.

·Kidney donation advertisements appear in hospital public toilets with a price of 200,000 yuan per kidney (photo)

Transplant institutions will implement an admission system

Under the new regulations During the process of soliciting opinions, the implementation of the organ transplant technology access system has attracted the attention of the organ transplant community. According to an expert from the organ transplant center of a tertiary hospital in Beijing, in recent years many medical institutions have blindly carried out organ transplant projects driven by economic benefits. Sometimes there are as many as five or six hospitals performing organ transplant operations in one area, causing competition. Donor organs and patient chaos. Under the new regulations, only medical institutions with certain technical conditions, medical equipment and technical personnel can engage in organ transplantation.

Huang Jiefu also affirmed that in the future, medical institutions such as township health centers will not be able to carry out organ transplants. "At present, we will not forcefully implement the measure of only identifying one hospital for organ transplants in a region, but we must introduce The access system only allows hospitals with qualified conditions to do it.”

·Four million blind people encounter legislative blind spots and it is recommended to legislate organ transplantation

Brain death standards are determined for the first time

Huang Jiefu also revealed that the new regulations will for the first time adopt the coexistence of two death standards, cardiac arrest death and brain death, and two independent regulatory guidelines. According to reports, when the human body is brain dead, there will still be heartbeat and breathing, so many people believe that there is still life. However, according to international standards, brain-dead patients no longer have any possibility of survival. Therefore, the new regulations confirm that organ transplant surgery can be performed after the patient is determined to be brain dead