The draft Law amending and supplementing the Law on Organ Donation, Extraction, and Transplantation of Human Organs and Organs proposes 8 new policies to remove practical obstacles, and at the same time increase the source of donated organs, ensuring fairness and transparency in organ transplant coordination.
According to the National Coordinating Center for Organ Transplantation, the movement to donate tissues and organs from brain-dead donors in Vietnam is having many positive changes. In 2024, the whole country recorded 41 cases of brain death and organ donation. This number increased to 66 cases in 2025. In the first 7 months of 2026 alone, there were 46 cases, of which July recorded 8 cases of brain death and organ donation - the highest level ever in a month.
From these organ donations, many organ failure patients have had heart, liver, kidney, lung, cornea and other tissues and organs transplanted, contributing to bringing opportunities to prolong the patient's life.
However, according to the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center, the source of donated organs is still not meeting the treatment needs when the whole country still has tens of thousands of patients with organ transplant indications. Therefore, improving policies and laws is considered an important solution to promote tissue and organ donation and transplantation activities.
Dr. Nguyen Hoang Phuc - Deputy Director of the National Coordination Center for Organ Transplantation - said that the Draft Law amending and supplementing the Law on Donation, Extraction, and Transplantation of Human Organs and Organs and Blood Donation and Extraction proposes to add 8 new policies.
Accordingly, the draft law proposes to amend the regulations on the conditions for people donating human tissues and organs when alive; expand the subjects eligible to donate human tissues and organs after death; supplement regulations on conditions for determining brain death, circulatory death; complete the conditions to ensure the activities of donating, taking, transplanting human tissues and organs and donating, taking corpses and many related contents.
Regarding the principle of organ transplant coordination, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Phuc said that coordination will ensure harmony between donors and recipients, while complying with the principles of fairness, transparency, and objectivity. The allocation of organs will be prioritized according to the level of urgency of the patient, the level of compatibility in terms of expertise and treatment effectiveness, based on the national waiting list for organ transplantation and the unified coordination process nationwide.
In the coming time, the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Health, hospitals and related units to expand the coordination network, strengthen communication, improve professional procedures and legal systems, thereby promoting tissue and organ donation and transplantation activities, better meeting the treatment needs of patients.
