Read More
The delegation of the Legislative Council Panel on Health Services visited Guangzhou yesterday (July 29) to learn about the operation of organ donation, allocation, transplant, and relevant systems and mechanisms in the mainland.
ADVERTISEMENT
SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT
The delegation comprised Panel chairman Tommy Cheung Yu-yan, Panel members Shiu Ka-fai, David Lam Tzit-yuen, Dennis Lam Shun-chiu, etc. The government and the Hospital Authority also sent representatives to participate in the visit.
They first visited the China Organ Donation and Transplant Development Museum located in the Big Data Centre of National Health Commission for Human Tissue, Organ Transplant and Medicine.
The Centre is responsible for the operation and data analysis of various national medical data systems, including the China Organ Transplant Response System (COTRS).
The delegation later visited the 24-hour COTRS Coordination Centre, which holds national clinical data of organ donors and recipients.
The Coordination Centre also matches and allocates donated organs according to the patient's medical urgency, calculated by an advanced mathematical model without human intervention in real-time to ensure fairness and impartiality.
Since 2013, the National Health Commission has required that all cadaveric organs donated by Chinese citizens in the mainland must be matched through the COTRS. Allocation of donated organs outside the system is strictly prohibited.
Before returning to Hong Kong, they exchanged views on establishing a standing cooperation mechanism for sharing organs for transplant in Hong Kong and the Mainland with local officials.
