March 31, 2021, when the Ching Ming Festival is approaching, it will be under the guidance of the Chinese Red Cross Society and the National Health Commission, hosted by the China Human Organ Donation Management Center, and undertaken by the Jiangsu Red Cross Society and the Nanjing Red Cross Society "The Movement of Life-2021 National Human Organ Donation Memorial and Publicity Campaign" was held at the Memorial Forest for Organ Donors in Nanjing.
The event reviewed the donation story during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic with a video.
Among them, there are patients with new coronary pneumonia who donated their bodies for dissection and study of the new coronavirus; there are also anti-epidemic patients who struggled in various positions to fight the epidemic before they died and donated their body organs after their deaths.
According to statistics, in 2020, the number of registered human organ donations exceeded one million for the first time, which is the sum of the previous eight years.
So far, the cumulative number of registered volunteers for organ donation in the country has exceeded 3.15 million. After the death of citizens, more than 33,000 organ donations have been completed, and more than 99,000 organs have been donated, successfully saving the lives of nearly 100,000 patients with organ failure.
(Reporter Wen Mengxin's video comes from China Human Organ Donation Management Center)
Editor in charge: [Sun Jingbo]