Ulaanbaatar
‘Expanding Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation’ int'l seminar takes place
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONSTAME/ Ministry of Health, Health Development Center (HDC), Transplantation Society, Mongolian Organ Transplantation Association, Raphael Nanum Foundation, and rotary clubs of Mongolia and the Republic of Korea jointly organized the First International Scientific Seminar ‘Expanding Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation’ on October 30.
The seminar was aimed at promoting the Donor Law, finding
an answer to how to manage and improve organ transplantation from brain-dead
donors, enhancing cross-sectoral cooperation, and allowing the participants to share their knowledge and experience.
Health professionals of intensive care and neuro units of
the first and third central hospitals, National Trauma and Orthopedic
Research Center, and the National Center for Maternal and Child Health,
transplant team physicians and nurses, and HDC Cells, Tissues, and Organs
Transplantation Regulatory Department specialists presented their research on
deceased donor organ transplantation at the seminar.
Head of HDC Regulatory Department for Cells, Tissues, and
Organs Transplantation P.Batchuluun said numerous important matters were
discussed at the international seminar. “In Mongolia, around 500 people die from
accidents and about 4,000 people from hypertension annually. One brain dead
donor can save up to eight lives. We can save a large number of lives by
transplanting organs from such donors to those in critical need of the organs,”
“Some countries transplant the organs of cardiac-dead donors as well. In Mongolia, organs of 18 deceased donors have been transplanted to 41 recipients to date. Kidney, liver and bone marrow transplants are performed at the country’s First Central Hospital and National Cancer Center,” he added.
