Current situation of organ transplantation in China: less than 10000 people get organ transplantation every year

August 9, 2013 source: xinhua.com.cn on August 8, the national health and Family Planning Commission released the list of 165 hospitals approved to carry out human organ transplantation projects, including Beijing Union Medical College Hospital and China Japan Friendship Hospital At present, China has become the second largest organ transplant country in the world, with more than 8000 surgical cases per year On May 1, 2007, China's regulations on human organ transplantation was officially implemented It is understood that there are three main sources of organ transplantation in China: judicial channels, i.e donation by death row prisoners; donation by living relatives of patients; and organ donation by citizens In recent years, fewer and fewer organs have been obtained from the first way Living donation violates the ethical principle of "no damage", mainly through the third way In order to prevent organ acquisition from becoming a transaction, in accordance with international practice, in 2010, China began to establish an organ donation system with the participation of third-party organizations The non-profit third party is the China human organ donation management center, which was entrusted by the former Ministry of health to the Red Cross Society of China In July 2012, the Chinese editorial office officially approved the establishment of the institution As a central financial subsidy institution directly under the Red Cross Society of China, the center is mainly responsible for publicity and mobilization, registration, donation witness, fair distribution, rescue and incentive, memorial and information platform construction of human organ donation nationwide Up to now, 25 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) have established human organ donation management centers or offices Each center or office shall establish its own organ coordinator team to understand the information of potential organ donors and report to each center or office However, the local center or office is not a functional organization, but a temporary department, and most of its members come from the organ transplant hospital However, due to the large gap between supply and demand, the number of cases of organ failure is about 300000 every year, and less than 10000 people get organ transplantation In response to this problem, Deng Haihua, spokesman of the national health and Family Planning Commission, said at the regular press conference of the national health and Family Planning Commission on July 10, 2013 that in 2010, the former Ministry of health formulated the basic principles of human organ distribution and sharing and the core policy of liver and kidney transplantation, and organized the research and development of human organ distribution and sharing system on the basis of the policy At present, the testing work of the system is basically completed, and it will be officially put into operation in the near future Deng Haihua said that in order to better ensure the scientific, standardized, open and fair distribution of donated organs and ensure the transparency, openness and traceability of organ donation and transplantation, the national health and Family Planning Commission will issue Interim Provisions on the management of human organ acquisition and distribution, and will force the use of human organ distribution and sharing system nationwide