All human organ distribution in China will be traceable in the future

  On the 11th, China’s first International Forum on Human Organ Access Organizations and the first China Human Organ Access Organizations Training Conference opened in Shenzhen. This marks the launch of the full professionalization of China’s organ access organization system.  Huang Jiefu, director of the Human Organ Clinical Technology Application Committee of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said, “After nearly three years of piloting, organ donation after the death of a citizen in China has been fully rolled out. Whether this work will be successful, the construction of China’s Organ Acquisition Organization (OPO) is the key.”  Huang Jiefu introduced that the National Health and Family Planning Commission is studying the development of relevant documents, where the organs donated by citizens after death will be allocated through the organ allocation and sharing system to achieve distribution, and the allocation of transplanted human organs outside the system is strictly prohibited. After the implementation of the document, all human organ allocation will be traceable.  Currently, there are 164 human organ acquisition organizations in China, formed by hospitals qualified for transplantation. The acquiring organizations are responsible for carrying out the work of human organ acquisition and organ allocation using the China Organ Allocation and Sharing System. According to the report, the system performs the process of donor-recipient matching and organ allocation without human intervention according to relevant policies, and realizes the principle of fair and open organ allocation.  Wang Haibo, director of the China Organ Allocation and Sharing System Research Center, revealed that so far 626 organ transplant waiters have been reborn through the fair allocation of organs by the allocation system.  A WHO official said, “China’s organ transplant and allocation sharing system eliminates human intervention and uses the patient’s medical needs, such as the urgency of the patient’s medical condition and the degree of organ matching, as the only criteria for organ allocation.”