Organ donors, “registered into a national register”

According to a draft law which is under public debate, the data from the National Registry of Human Organs, Tissues and Cells Donors Evidence will be centralized at the Health Ministry.

The registry aims to create a database “for information managing in order to achieve the organs, tissues or/and cells transplant in accordance with the will and rights of people who during their lifetime agree to post-mortem donate, in a therapeutic purpose, his organs, tissues and/or cells”, according to the draft law posted on the site of Health Ministry.

Into the registry will be submitted the entire donor’s data, but also of notary public or of other authority which authenticated the document.

Non filling of all the provided data leads to invalidation of the procedure, situation in which the application will not release the proof of registration, interrogation or submission annulment.

The draft specifies that the organs that can be donated are heart, lungs, heart-lung, kidneys, liver, pancreas and intestine.

Also, they can be donated as tissues skin, corneas, islets of Langerhans, bone and blood vessels.

After submission request as a donor a certificate register will be issued automatically that will inclusively contain the date, hour, minute and the second when registration statement was done, according to the draft.

The registry can be accessed only by the employees of the Operative Center for Emergencies of the Health Ministry, at the transplant coordinators’ request.

The Health Ministry, in cooperation with the Special Telecommunication Service, announces that it will make a software application which allows the access on real time of public notary in order to register the data into the registry and respectively of ministry’s operators in order to query the registry; it is also specified into the draft posted on the ministry’s site.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University