In recent years, the integration of Lugang has gradually become Hong Kong's political theme. The SAR Government will announce the integration into the country's development every other time, especially the new policy of the Greater Bay Area.The last example is that the Hong Kong Government is studying the establishment of a constant organ transplantation mutual aid mechanism with mainland China.
Lu Chongmao, the director of the Hong Kong Medical and Health Bureau, revealed when attending a public event last week that the Hospital Administration will lead the medical team to visit the mainland this week to assist in the formulation of the two -place organ mutual assistance mechanism.According to him, the data management system of organs donation in mainland China is very advanced. The official hopes that this itinerary can strengthen Hong Kong experts' awareness of the development of organs donation, allocation, sharing and transplantation in mainland organ.
Modern medicine is becoming more and more developed, but for patients with organ failure, organ transplantation is still an important hope of continuing life.At present, the human organ transplantation services in Hong Kong are mainly provided by the Hospital Management Bureau. The bureau will include patients who need to be transplanted in the waiting roster. Once successfully paired, the organs donated by the donor will be transplanted to the most needed patients that need the most needed patients.On the body.
Unfortunately, the ratio of organ donations in Hong Kong has been at a low level in the past years. Thousands of patients have been waiting for various organs to transplant each year.However, there are very few donors in the body, and many patients have not waited for transplantation to die.
Last year, a Hong Kong baby girl with a rare "expansion myocardial disease" had cardiac failure, and the heart transplantation was required to continue life.Although the baby girl has been arranged to wait for heart transplants at the waiting book of the human organs in Hong Kong, no suitable donor has appeared, and her life was at a criticalst.The SAR government asked the central government for assistance.
By the second half of December last year, a brain -dead child in the mainland donated the heart.After multiple rounds of automatic matching in the mainland by the mainland government, after confirming that the heart did not have a suitable gift in the mainland, it decided to quickly cross the border to Hong Kong in just three hours in just three hours, and finally succeeded in successful success.Completed the first cardiac transplantation between the two places.
This successful "change of mind", in addition to demonstrating the seamless connection between Lugang, also opened a door for the establishment of cross -border donation organs in Hong Kong and mainland China.The Hong Kong Government has since followed up, hoping to use this successful case to establish a long -term mechanism and incorporate Hong Kong hospitals into the human organ distribution and sharing system in the mainland.
Theoretically, the more choices for human organs, the easier it is to find suitable organs pairing.If the two -place cooperation mechanism for cross -border transplants in Lu and Hong Kong, the appropriate transposition organs that Hong Kong patients can choose in the future will no longer be limited to the database of 7.5 million Hong Kong people, but the 1.4 billion population in Mainland China.The vast majority of Hong Kong disease patients who are eager to transplant surgery will definitely benefit from this policy.
For mainland patients, it is also good news that Lugang has reached the organizational mechanism for each other.In the future, when the mainland hospital cannot find organs suitable for patients on the mainland, and cannot match the local waiting system, the second -level mechanism can be started, transferred to the organ donation library in Hong Kong to find a pairing, and then transplant the suitable organs in Hong Kong to the Mainland.Save the lives of mainland patients, to win a win -win situation.
But I have to say that the cross -border transplantation cooperation in Lugang has also caused a lot of controversy in Hong Kong society.Some Hong Kong patients and medical organizations have questioned the different definitions of "death" in the mainland and Hong Kong, as well as different organs' donation monitoring and operating mechanisms.
Speaking of the biggest doubts of all parties, it is the source of organs transplantation in mainland China.Many years ago, there have been rumors that the donation of mainland organs involves organ trading.The most well -known rumor is that a well -known patriotic rich man has successfully done organ transplant in Guangdong and extended his life for many years.The story is true or false, but objectively has made Hong Kong society's perception of the transplantation of mainland organs always tend to be negative.
In this regard, the mainland official also acknowledged that a large part of China ’s organ transplantation of organs was derived from death prisoner before 2015, but later the use of death rowing organs has stopped. Citizen voluntary organ donation has become the only source of current organ donor.Judging from the current disclosed information, in recent years, it has no longer heard that the organs transplantation in the mainland is not complied with international standards.In the mainland, the organs of the mainland, the use of the dying row or the non -willing organs are not visible.Of course, people who believe in still believe that people who do not believe they still insist.
So when the Hong Kong Government and the mainland discussed the transplantation of cross -border "sharing" organ transplants, it naturally caused some concerns of Hong Kong people and worried that it would cause anti -effects.To the mainland and exiting the donation plan, it ultimately affects the opportunity to obtain organs in Hong Kong patients.This worry also reflects that after the return of Hong Kong in 1997, the exchanges between Lu and Hong Kong are becoming more and more frequent, but the trust between the two parties is backward.
In any case, "saving people's life and winning the seventh -level floating slaughter."The general direction of organ transplantation cooperation between Lu and Hong Kong is worthy of support. After all, it can help many of patients who need it.Of course, there are many practical issues in organ cross -border pairing. The official explanation is yet to be clear.It is necessary for the two governments to disclose the process and information of cooperation as clear as possible to reduce the concerns caused by society's doubts about organ transplantation.
