The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has passed the draft law on human donation (registration No. 2386-a-1).
The relevant decision was backed by 255 MPs registered in the session hall, an UNIAN correspondent has reported.
UNIAN: Ukraine’s parliament passes draft law on human donation
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.
