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Currently, Vietnam has 19 organ transplantation centres with almost 3,700 cases
conducted, of which 3,514 were kidney transplant.
Director of the national coordinating centre Trinh Hong Son said that the
biggest difficulty facing Vietnam is the shortage of organs and tissues for
transplantation.
Tens of patients with brain death are reported at hospitals nationwide each day,
but few of them register for organ donation.
Besides the connection between organ transplantation centres has yet to meet
requirements, Son added.
Sharing the same view, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Viet Tien stressed the need
for Vietnam to boost connection between those centres to achieve faster and more
effective organ transplant coordination.
Deputy Director of the national coordinating centre Nguyen Hoang Phuc stated
that Vietnam issued the Law on Human Organ and Tissue Donation and
Transplantation in 2006.
However, the law lacks policies in support for alive donors as well as donors
after brain death and their relatives, and regulations on the operation of
coordinating organisations and the involvement of humanitarian support funds for
patients who need organ and tissue transplantation, he emphasised.
Source: VNA
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