THE country’s organ donation rate from brain-dead donors remains among the lowest in the world despite performing over 1,000 organ transplants annually, the highest in South-East Asia.
Deputy Health Minister and Chairman of the National Medical Council, Prof Dr Tran Van Thuan noted that the government has been implementing various policies and programmes to ease organ and tissue donation.
However, to enhance transparency and efficiency, Thuan underscored the need to leverage technology in coordinating organ transplants.
Some other solutions he outlined include specific policies to facilitate the establishment of hospital-based organ donation counselling teams, ensuring they receive appropriate incentives, strengthening international cooperation to learn from countries with advanced organ donation systems and developing specialised training programmes for counselling. — Vietnam News/ANN
