Earlier, the baby girl Zhixi successfully had her heart replaced, which was the first time that Hong Kong approved the sending of organs from the mainland to Hong Kong for transplantation.
In an exclusive interview with "Hong Kong 01", the Director of the Medical and Health Bureau, Lu Chongmao, said that he is exploring the establishment of a new mechanism of "Article Two Team". It is expected that the mechanism will be more helpful to Hong Kong people after the establishment of the mechanism; there have been examples of Hong Kong exporting organs to Taiwan for a long time, but the priority will be given to the local area.
The International Heart and Lung Transplantation Society criticized last year that China still uses executed prisoners' organs. Lu Chongmao refuted these accusations as untrue, and reiterated that he has personally experienced that China has made great progress. "If he has really seen relevant examples, he will show evidence."
In an exclusive interview with "Hong Kong 01", the Director of the Medical and Health Bureau, Lu Chongmao, said that he is exploring the establishment of a new mechanism. When there is no suitable recipient on the mainland's waiting list for organs, he can cross the border and give them to Hong Kong recipients.
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Shared non-direct access to the Mainland mechanism, setting the second team to give priority to the local
The baby girl Zhixi successfully had her heart replaced, and it was the first time that Hong Kong approved the sending of organs from the mainland to Hong Kong for transplantation.
The Hong Kong government has stated earlier that the government will take an active and open attitude and explore the establishment of a regular organ donation sharing mechanism with mainland medical institutions.
Lu Chongmao explained in an interview with "Hong Kong 01" that the mechanism to be established is not Hong Kong's direct accession to the Chinese Human Organ Distribution and Sharing Computer System (COTRS), but a new mechanism to establish a "second team" when the mainland's organs are rotated. If no suitable recipients are found on the waiting list, they can come across the border to Hong Kong recipients, and vice versa.
Regarding the "going north" of organs, Lu Chongmao emphasized that Hong Kong must be given priority, and other places are also the concept of the "second team". In the end, it was donated to Taiwan.”
He revealed that he had already discussed with Dr. Huang Haibo of the Chinese Human Organ Allocation and Shared Computer System (COTRS), and expressed that he would actively consider it.
▼The 4-month-old baby girl Zhixi who successfully received a heart transplant▼
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The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation criticized China last year for still using executed prisoners' organs
However, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) issued a statement in August last year, calling on members not to use organs from China for transplants, because there is a lot of evidence that China still uses executed prisoners’ organs as a source of transplant donors, which violates voluntary donation. in principle.
Lu: What you see in the Mainland is completely Hong Kong standard
An unnamed person in the medical profession in Hong Kong worried that this move would affect the development of organ transplantation in Hong Kong. In response to relevant comments, Lu Chongmao pointed out that he had participated in the organ donation process in the Mainland at the Shenzhen Hospital of the University of Hong Kong, and believed that the local organ donation process was a Hong Kong organ donation process. Standards include the judgment of brain death, the time and method of organ transplantation, and distribution standards, etc. Before organ harvesting operations in mainland hospitals, there will be ceremonies of silence for donors.
The Chinese side once stated that since January 1, 2015, the use of executed prisoners’ organs as a source of transplant donors has been completely stopped, and voluntary organ donation after the death of citizens will become the only channel for organ transplantation.
(Xinhua News Agency)
Do you believe there are still black slaves in the United States?
When Lu Chongmao was interviewed by reporters in the past, he mentioned that the mainland used to use the organs of executed prisoners. After 2015, the mainland banned the use of executed prisoners' organs nationwide.
"It's like I say now that there were black slaves in the United States, and there may still be them now. Why should I believe these things?"
He believes that some people occasionally made some biased remarks at the International Heart and Lung Transplantation Society, or some transplant conferences, " If you look at it, there are a lot of people coming and going. The International Society for Liver Transplantation, after visiting the mainland, all agree with the reforms in the mainland.”
"Which medical profession" can produce evidence
When he was interviewed earlier, he asked "which medical profession" questioned, but this time he urged critics to speak with evidence,
"If he has evidence, I welcome him to come out and say, I can tell him my experience, and he can also say, if he I have really seen the relevant examples and presented the evidence.”
Director of the Medical and Health Bureau Lu Chongmao (second from right) visited the Children's Hospital on February 2 to visit BB girl Zhixi who had undergone heart transplant surgery.
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Li Xiayin (right), deputy director of the Medical and Health Bureau, met with Zhixi's mother (left) on December 23 last year to learn about Zhixi's latest situation.
(Photo from Government News Network)
01 Interview with Lu Chongmao ｜ BB girl Zhixi looks good after changing her heart and reveals that she has a heart in the Northeast, but her heart is too far ｜Looking forward to the reform of the private hospital system to make it difficult for the public sector to join the mainland procurement bargaining Relationship with the Chief Executive: Playing Good or Bad 01 Interview with Lu Chongmao｜Reflecting on the Establishment of a New Team for Organ Transplantation in the Mainland Calling for Questions of Using Death Row as Evidence
