TOKYO, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — Japan has logged the 1,000th case of organ donations from brain-dead folks, 26 years after the nation’s organ transplant legislation got here into power in 1997, in keeping with the Japan Organ Transplant Network.
The 1,000th donor was a person in his 60s who had been declared brain-dead at a hospital in western Japan primarily based on the legislation, the community mentioned. His organs had been harvested on Saturday, and his coronary heart, lungs, liver and kidneys had been to be transplanted to recipients.
While the variety of organ donations from brain-dead folks has been on the rise, there may be nonetheless a scarcity of donors as lower than 3 % of sufferers searching for organs have really obtained transplants.
Japan’s first organ donation below the legislation was carried out in 1999. Initially, donations typically numbered lower than 10 per yr as organ donation required a written declaration of intent from donors.
In 2010, the legislation was revised to permit donations with the consent of a member of the family and to permit donations from youngsters below the age of 15.