UNIAN: Poroshenko signs law allowing human organs donation

By UNIAN.

Published June 21, 2018 at 9:52 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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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed law No. 2386-1 to amend certain legislative acts of Ukraine on health care and donation of organs and other anatomical materials to humans.

“Finally, each year, more than 5,000 Ukrainians requiring organs and tissues transplantation have a chance to live. We will be able to cure four times as many small patients in our country for Hr 200 million, which we used to pay to Belarus for our children’s treatment,” Olha Bogomolets, an MP chairing Ukraine’s parliamentary committee on health and an initiator of the relevant bill, wrote on Facebook June 20.