The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has passed a bill on amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the application of donation of organs and other anatomical materials to humans (registration No. 9461-e).
UNIAN: Rada unlocks transplantation in Ukraine
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.
