About 101,000 people have registered to donate organs and tissues.

On October 12, at the conference on organ and tissue donation in Vietnam organized by the Vietnam Association for Human Organ and Tissue Donation in collaboration with the Vietnam Organ Transplant Association and the Military Medical Academy in Hanoi, Associate Professor, Dr. Dong Van He, Director of the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center, said that the country has 29 hospitals performing organ transplants, including 27 kidney transplant hospitals, 8 liver transplant hospitals, 5 heart transplant hospitals, 4 lung transplant hospitals and 2 pancreas transplant hospitals.

In recent times, hospitals have performed organ transplants for hundreds of patients with serious illnesses.

Although the rate of organ donation registration of the people and the rate of organ donation after brain death in our country has gradually increased, the source of donated organs and tissues has not met the transplant demand. According to statistics from the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center, in the first 9 months of 2024, the number of brain-dead people donating organs and tissues was 25 cases (in 2023 there were only 14 cases), contributing to an increase in the number of organs donated from brain-dead people to 87/829 transplant patients (reaching a rate of 10.49%).

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, President of the Association for Promoting Human Tissue and Organ Donation, said that as of August 2024, the number of people registered to donate tissues and organs in Vietnam was about 101,000. In fact, the number of brain-dead organ donors in Vietnam is still among the lowest in the world, ranking 3rd from the bottom.

For organ and tissue donation activities in Vietnam to develop sustainably, it requires the cooperation of the whole society, the direction of the Government, ministries, departments, branches, the Vietnam Fatherland Front at all levels, religious dignitaries, especially the media.

NGUYEN QUOC

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/khoang-101000-nguoi-da-dang-ky-hien-mo-tang-post763387.html