China Solicits Public Opinion On Organ Donation And Transplantation

• The Ministry of Health in China is drafting new rules governing human organs donation and transplants. It has published on its Website the following:
  
  

  • Hospitals should hold a hearing before each living organ transplant to confirm donor's real will.
  
  
  
  • Every hospital to carry out human organ transplant must set up a transplant technical and ethical commission, which should be made up of experts in medical treatment, nurse, pharmaceutics, management, law and ethic.
  
  
  
  • The doctors involved in the transplant must be excluded from the commission, but didn’t specify whether the experts should come from outside of the hospital.
  
  
  
  • Each organ transplant must be performed after obtaining the approval by the commission.
  
  
  
  • The commission will hold a hearing for each transplant, inviting the organ donor and his family
  
  
  
  • Members have to confirm, that the donor is willing to contribute his organ and it was not for sale.
  
  
  
  • The rules stipulate that human organs are not allowed to trade. A donor has the right to refuse his donation before operation.
  
  
  
  • Organs of HIV carriers, hepatitis patients and people suffering other blood infection diseases are forbidden to be used in transplant.