Ukrainian Parliament gives preliminary approval to organ transplantation

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed in the first reading the bill No. 2386-1 on transplantation of organs and other human anatomic materials.

243 lawmakers voted for the decision voted, the Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper reports.

Before the vote, one of the bill authors Olha Bohomolets stated that the law would save UAH 326 million, which Ukraine now pays for the treatment of children abroad.

She also added that the donors would be only those people who during their life wrote a statement of consent to the removal of their organs after their death to save another human being.

According to the explanatory note, “the elaboration of the bill was promoted by the high mortality rate among people who could survive if they had been transplanted the organs from deceased donors.”

“The transplantation has already become the standard treatment of many pathologies in the developed countries. According to the experts, 50% of surgical operations will be linked to human organ transplantation in the middle of the third millennium,” says the document.

The authors also believe that one of the main reasons for slow development of this area of medicine in Ukraine is the lack of the required number of organs for transplantation.

According to preliminary calculations, 40-60 potential donors per 1 million population die in Ukraine every year. The number equals about 3,000 donors who could save the lives of 10,000 patients.