The Ministry of Health is drafting a Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Sickness, Tissue and organ transplantation and Donation and removal of bodies.
Cost of tissue donation, transplantation, and body parts
In the draft, the Ministry of Health proposes to add Article 33a on the cost of donating, transplanting tissues and body parts after Article 33 of the Law on Pension, removing, transplanting tissues and body parts and donating, removing bodies as follows:
Costs for people who donate tissues and organs while they are alive include the following costs: Health check for the donor; check the biological parameters of the donor; take away human tissues and organs; care and recovery after donation.
The costs for people who donate tissues and body parts after death for treatment include the following costs: Resuscitation; assessment of tissue and body part function for donation; collection of tissue and body part of the donor.
Costs for people who transplant tissues and body parts include the following costs: Checking biological parameters; transplanting human tissues and body parts; recovering health; periodic check-ups and anti-plant waste medicine.
The draft clearly states that in the case of people who receive a tissue or body part transplant, there are also costs for transporting human tissue or body parts from other medical examination and treatment facilities.
The Ministry of Health also proposed to add Article 36a on the unit coordinating tissue and body parts transplantation after Article 36 of the Law on Pension, collecting, collecting tissue and body parts and donating, collecting bodies as follows:
The head of the medical examination and treatment facility that collects and transplants tissues and organs of the person deciding to establish a unit to coordinate the transplantation of human tissues and organs.
The unit coordinating tissue and body part transplantation of a person has the task of:
Receive and process information about donation, change or cancel donation of human tissues and organs at the facility;
Management of the waiting list for tissue and body parts transplantation of the facility;
Management of information related to donors, people receiving tissue transplants, and human body parts at the facility;
Coordinate with the National Coordination Center for Human Body parts transplantation in coordinating the collection, transplantation, storage, storage, and transportation of human tissues and body parts between its facility and medical examination and treatment facilities for tissue transplantation and body parts of others;
International cooperation in coordinating the collection and transplantation of human tissues and organs.
Everyone has the right to donate tissues and parts of their body after death
The draft amends Article 5 as follows: Right to donate tissues and organs of the human body after death: Everyone has the right to donate tissues and organs of his/her body after death. In case a person under 18 years old donates tissues or body parts after death, there must be written consent from the legal representative.
The right to donate tissues and organs to the human body while still alive: People aged thirty and over, with full civil act capacity, are allowed to donate their body parts while alive to any person waiting for a transplant without specifying the identity of the transplanted person;
People aged eighteen and over, with full civil act capacity, are allowed to donate their body parts while they are alive to their father, mother, children, brothers, sisters, and siblings of the transplanted person;
People aged sixteen and over are allowed to donate their tissues while they are alive. In case a person under 18 years old donates tissue while alive, there must be written consent of a legal representative or legal guardian.
People aged eighteen and over, with full civil act capacity, have the right to donate their bodies after death.
