Organ transplantation service in Ukraine — development problems and ways of overcoming

Abstract

This review describes the present day state of organ and cell transplantation services in Ukraine. Established have been the main challenges of their development and ways of overcoming. The creation of the National Agency on the transplantation and donation would give an opportunity to determine a single structure responsible for the development of all directions of transplantation service and would allow provide functioning of public health care and research institutions extremely necessary for institute of transplantation coordinators. Some kinds of activity need updating and elaboration of new normative documents. It is only clear-cut regulations and control over activities of organ transplantation that would prevent possible legal infringements in this sphere, thus allowing medical professionals in the field of organ transplantation service in Ukraine work on good international standards.

About the need to introduce a presumption of consent for organs transplantation and other human anatomical materials

“…Most irreversible damage to vital organs such as the kidneys, liver, pancreas, lungs and heart cannot be cured other than by surgery. That is why transplantology in the developed countries of the world is one of the most dynamically developing areas, according to the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Health -Olga Bogomolets (Nikonenko, 2014). The global growth rate of transplant operations predicts that in 20-30 years, 50-60% of all surgeries will involve transplantation of organs, tissues and cells, in addition, will no longer transplant organs, but artificially or artificially grown.…”