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China moves to regulate organ transplant
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-06-05 10:19
China is preparing to issue "in the near future" a document to regulate the
developing organ transplant operation market, and the trading of human organs
would be prohibited, according to a senior Ministry of Health official.
The upcoming regulations would highlight eight principles on organ transplant
operations, covering the patient's will to take the operation voluntarily, his
right to know in advance about the operation, the technological standards for
access and non-commercialization, said Vice Minister Huang Jiefu.
Stressing the non-commercialization requirement, he reiterated the World
Health Organization's guiding principle on organ transplants -- the human body
and any part of it should not be subjected to trade. Putting up ads for buying
organs for transplants and selling organs should be prohibited.
The world health body also forbids any individual or institution involved in
organ transplants to claim payment other than a service charge.
The new regulations would embody all the principles and clearlystipulate that
organs cannot be traded, Huang said at the Sixth International Liver Transplant
Seminar on Friday.
The regulations would also outline that only medical institutions enjoying
certain technological capabilities, staff and equipment will be allowed to enter
the market.
Township clinics will be prohibited from performing organ transplants, Hu
said.
"We'll not say that only one hospital can do the operation in one region, but
we'll only allow those who are capable to do it byintroducing a market access
system."
The regulations will adopt two criteria to determine whether a person is dead
and it is safe to transplant his or her organs to others: the heart stopping or
brain death, according to the official.
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