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112.ua: Poroshenko signs law on organ donation

Published June 20, 2018 at 2:56 pm

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 February 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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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the law #2386a-1 on transplantation as the website of the parliament reported.

According to the law, every person during life can agree for the postmortem organ donation or refuse from it. There is also a possibility to say about your position to the nominee. It is planned to store the information about this in the protected electronic system – United state infosystem of transplantation.