Regulations on human organ transplantation

Huang Jiefu, Vice Minister of Health, said that China's first Regulation on Human Organ Transplantation is expected to be promulgated in the near future.

Organ transplantation will be standardized.

China will issue the first human organ transplant regulations and establish eight principles.

The new law prohibits organ trading.

It is understood that the first human organ transplant regulation will follow eight principles, such as voluntariness, informed consent, fairness and justice, technology access, non-commercialization and independent decision. In view of the commercialization trend of organ transplantation in China, Huang Jiefu particularly emphasized the principle of non-commercialization: "199 1 year, the World Health Organization adopted the Guiding Principles of Human Organ Transplantation, which stipulated that the human body and its parts should not be the objects of commercial transactions, including organ advertising, organ provision, payment and collection, etc. And prohibit any individual or institution involved in organ transplant procedures from charging appropriate service fees. Huang Jiefu said that China's new organ transplant regulations also cited the above principles, clearly stipulating that the acquisition, preservation and transportation of organs can be charged, but the organs themselves can never be used for sale.

There are advertisements for donating kidneys in hospital public toilets, each kidney costs 200,000 yuan (photos).

Transplant institutions will implement an access system.

In the process of soliciting opinions on the new regulations, the implementation of the organ transplant technology access system has attracted the attention of the organ transplant community. According to experts from the Organ Transplantation Center of Beijing 3A Hospital, in recent years, driven by economic interests, many medical institutions blindly carry out organ transplantation projects. Sometimes there are as many as five or six hospitals doing organ transplantation in one area, resulting in a chaotic situation of competing for donor organs and patients. In the new regulations, only medical institutions with certain technical conditions, medical equipment and technicians can engage in organ transplantation.

Huang Jiefu also affirmed that medical institutions at the township hospitals level will not be able to carry out organ transplantation in the future. "At present, it will not be mandatory to identify only one hospital for organ transplantation in one region, but an access system must be introduced to allow only qualified hospitals to do it."

4 million blind people have encountered a legislative blind spot, so it is suggested to legislate to regulate organ transplantation.

Firstly, the standard of brain death is determined.

At the same time, Huang Jiefu revealed that for the first time, the new regulations will adopt the legal policy of coexistence of two death standards, namely cardiac arrest death and brain death, and two independent choices. According to reports, when a person's brain dies, there will still be heartbeat and breathing, so many people think that there is life, but according to international standards, brain-dead patients have no possibility of survival. Therefore, it is determined in the new regulations that organ transplantation can be carried out after the brain death of the patient is determined.