Organ transplant data for Japan’s hospitals to be disclosed by health ministry


A government building accommodating the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry head office in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. - The Japan News/ANN

TOKYO: The Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry has announced that they would disclose information about transplant operations at medical institutions amid difficulties in transplanting organs from brain-dead donors.

The ministry plans to disclose the data, which would include the number of patients on waiting lists as well as survival rates of organ recipients, by the end of the fiscal year.

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