4-month-old Zhixi is suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy and urgently needs a heart replacement.
Checking the number of new registrations for organ donation in recent years, it is found that the number of new registrations has continued to decline in recent years. According to the figures on the organ donation website, as of November 18, the central organ donation registration register was 354,618, an increase of only 23,854 compared with 2020, and the growth rate has slowed down significantly.
In addition, according to the information provided earlier by the Hospital Authority, there were only 49 organ donations and transplants in the first six months of this year, one-third of the number last year.
Zhou Jiahuan, convener of the Hong Kong Organ Donation Action Group, believes that the government has not changed much in promoting organ donation in recent years, and has no plan to increase the rate of organ donation. We can only hope that after the epidemic is over, the government can allocate more resources for promotion, and the Hospital Authority should also improve the current procedures for confirming brain death and improve the process of persuading family members to allow organ donation.
The number of new registrations for organ donation has continued to decline in recent years. According to figures from organ donation websites, as of November 18, the central register for organ donation was 354,618, an increase of only 23,854 compared with 2020, and the growth rate has slowed down significantly.
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In the past, November 12th was Organ Donation Day. Every year, the Department of Health vigorously promotes the message of organ donation before and after that day, but it seems that most citizens may not receive it.
The number of new registrations for organ donation has continued to decline in recent years. According to figures from the organ donation website, as of November 18, the central register for organ donation was 354,618, compared with 330,764 people registered on the register in 2020, which means that the total increase in the past two years is only 23,854. Since then, the growth rate has slowed down significantly.
The number of people willing to donate organs has decreased, but the number of patients waiting for organ transplants has increased.
As of September 30 this year, there were 2,913 patients waiting for organ transplants. However, according to the data provided by the Hospital Authority earlier, there were only 49 organ donations and transplants in the first six months of this year, which is only one-third of last year. .
Among the 49 organ donation transplants, 26 were kidney transplants, 12 were liver transplants, 7 were heart transplants and 4 were lung transplants.
Among various organs, the number of people waiting for kidney transplantation is the largest. As of September 30 this year, there were 2,424 patients waiting for kidney transplantation.
Zhou Jiahuan, the convener of the Hong Kong Organ Donation Action Group, said that most patients have to wait for five to six years, and some have to wait for 28 to 30 years. .”
Zhou Jiahuan believes that the current organ donation rate in Hong Kong is low. There are only five body donors per one million people on average. The number of people who are willing to donate organs this year is relatively small. As of September 30, there were only about 23 people.
Compared with Asian regions with more traditional values, Hong Kong’s ranking is also low. For example, there are eight out of one million body donors in South Korea. Compared with European countries, Hong Kong’s organ donation rate is low. , because the organ donation rates in Spain and Australia can reach 40 and 16.
She said that there are many reasons for the low organ donation rate in Hong Kong, one-third of which is due to the value of "keeping the whole body".
Faced with the continuous decline in organ donation, Zhou Jiahuan believes that the Hong Kong government has not changed much in promoting organ donation in recent years, and has no plan to increase the rate of organ donation. "Take this year's organ donation as an example, the publicity methods of the government and the Hospital Authority are the same as in the past, with advertisements and press conferences, etc., without much innovation.
Zhou Jiahuan, convener of the Hong Kong Organ Donation Action Group, believes that the Hong Kong government has not changed much in promoting organ donation in recent years, and has no plan to increase the rate of organ donation.
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She does not agree that the epidemic is the reason for the continuous decline in the number of new registrations. "Registration is online, and registration has nothing to do with the epidemic." However, she agrees that it is difficult to advertise on the street because of the need to reduce contact with people during the epidemic.
Under the epidemic situation, organ transplant operations may also be reduced, because many wards have been converted to new coronary pneumonia wards, and some hospitals have been converted to designated hospitals. We only hope that after the epidemic is over, the Hong Kong government can allocate more resources to do so. To promote this, the government can set some goals in the future, such as increasing the organ donation rate in Hong Kong from 5 people per million to 10 to 12 people.
She also suggested that the Hospital Authority should improve the current procedures for confirming brain death and improve the procedures for persuading family members to allow organ donation.
At present, 400,000 people die every year, only 1% are brain dead, but in Spain, 13% are brain dead.
She believes that the disparity is because the Hospital Authority has not made great efforts to judge the brain death of patients, so many deceased who could have donated their organs have not been able to donate their organs.
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