Bodies without the right transplant

Bodies without the right transplant

The agreement or disagreement of the citizen in the post-mortem removal of organs must be recorded in the information system of the Ministry of health and are reflected in your driver’s license or passport. This proposal is contained in introduced in the state Duma the draft law, Senator Anton Belyakov. Interviewees “b” experts remind that similar project was developed by the Ministry of health and it is much wider than submitted to the state Duma of the document.

Record of agreement or disagreement of the citizen in the post-mortem removal of organs or tissues for transplantation in the information system of the Ministry of health, and also put the appropriate mark in the passport or driver’s license is available in introduced in the state Duma the bill. In the explanatory note developers refer to the situations “when relatives disagree with the removal of organs for transplantation, rat on doctors.”

The most well known of such cases of Alina Sablina: after the death in hospital, the 19-year-old girl was taken for subsequent transplants heart, kidney and other internal organs, as her relatives were not informed.

Having failed in the courts of General jurisdiction, they appealed to the constitutional court demanding to recognize existing norms of the legislation unconstitutional. In March 2016, the court of appeal not granted. We will remind, according to article 8 (presumption of consent) of the law “About transplantation” the removal of organs is permitted if the medical facility at the time the seizure was not made aware of the disagreement as a potential donor or his close relatives.

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The authors of the bill, one of which is Senator Anton Belyakov, provide the data of the Ministry of health, according to which in Russia “is only 30% of the required number of operations on transplantation of organs”.

Only ten cases of transplantation per million, whereas in many EU countries, this figure ranges from 66 to 85 cases.Anton Belarusintorg

“The society formed the understanding of the importance of salvation, — say the developers.— Therefore, even in States where the organs after death can only be removed in the presence of consent in his lifetime, the posthumous donation developed better than in Russia”. They recall that in some US States and EU countries graph of consent to posthumous organ donation exists in your driver’s license or insurance certificate.

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