Following an incident in which a director of an NPO was arrested on suspicion of violating the Organ Transplantation Law for arranging organ donations to patients who wished to receive organ transplants overseas without obtaining national government permission, next month the Ministry of Health and Welfare A research group of the Ministry of Labor has decided to start a fact-finding survey on the number and situation of patients who have received organ transplants overseas.
This was revealed at the Organ Transplant Committee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare held on the 6th.
According to this, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will set up a research group consisting of doctors who are familiar with organ transplantation in the new fiscal year starting next month, and will start a fact-finding survey to understand the actual situation of patients who receive organ transplants overseas.
Through the Japan Society for Transplantation and other organizations, the survey targeted approximately 200 medical institutions that treat post-organ transplant patients. We are planning to conduct a survey to find out whether it is a transplant from a deceased person or a transplant from a deceased person.
Patients who have undergone organ transplantation need to go to medical institutions with specialist doctors to take drugs that suppress immunity and to follow up, and they want to understand the actual situation through surveys at these medical institutions.
The survey will be conducted from the beginning of next month to the middle of June this year, and the results will be announced later this year. I would like to consider future measures after conducting an investigation."