Six organizations aiming to promote transplantation have submitted a request to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to request the establishment of a system for medical institutions that can donate organs, as the waiting period for organ transplants is long and many patients die. .
Six organizations, including patients and citizens who aim to promote organ transplants, submitted the request form, which was handed over to the person in charge at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on the 27th.
According to the request form, there will be a total of 150 organ donations from brain-dead patients in 2023, the highest number since the Organ Transplant Law was enacted, but fewer than 4% of patients on the waiting list have been able to receive a transplant. , pointed out that many patients die without receiving a transplant.
In addition, specific requests include making it compulsory to report to the Japan Organ Transplant Network when a brain-dead patient occurs, and establishing a system for medical institutions that can donate organs in order to respect the donor's wishes. I thought it was necessary.
We are also calling for the creation of a society in which organ donors and their families are respected, and for the establishment of a system for transporting patients by jet aircraft, etc., so that patients waiting for a transplant in rural areas can receive a transplant.
Michikata Okubo, chairman of the Green Ribbon Promotion Association, one of the organizations that submitted the request, said, ``The current system for transplanting is inadequate, and if things continue as they are, the site will go bankrupt before the number of cases increases.'' I want them to proceed with the maintenance," he said.