Health Ministry plans to launch unified system for transplantation in Ukraine from 2021

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published July 20, 2020 at 9:15 am

Two nurses look at surgeon XXX and his staff performing a renal transplantation on patient Juan Benito Druet at La Paz hospital in Madrid on Feb. 28, 2017.Doctors in Spain performed 4,818 transplants on 2016, including 2,994 kidney transplants, according to the health ministry's National Transplant Organisation (ONT). That means there were 43.4 organ donors per million inhabitants last year, a world record, up from 40.2 donors in 2015. By comparison in the United States there were just 28.2 donors per million inhabitants in 2015, in France there were 28.1 donors and in Germany there were 10.9 donors, according to the Council of Europe.

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The Ministry of Health plans to launch from January 1, 2021, a unified system for transplantation in Ukraine, which will contain information on donors and recipients, the press service of the ministry reported.

“The launch of the system will allow the development of transplantation in Ukraine. At present, the ministry is working to create a network of transplant centers so that Ukraine is included in the list of leading countries for such operations,” the information posted on the Facebook says referring to a briefing by Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov taking place on July 18.