A member of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong suggested that the SAR government amend the organ donation mechanism to make the donor's willingness to show a legal effect.The Medical and Health Bureau believes that before the society does not fully consensus, it is not suitable to consider the enforcement of organ donation.
According to the Hong Kong News Agency on Thursday (June 15), Lu Chongmao, director of the Hong Kong Medical Health Director, said that organ donation is selfless love behavior, but this issue should be strengthened by strengthening education and publicity.Push, so it is not suitable to consider legislative compulsory at this stage.
He said that for such controversial issues, before society did not fully consensus, to force the implementation of organ donations by legislative methods, it is more likely to be counterproductive, so those who intend to donate organs must consider it carefully.Therefore, the Hong Kong Government has not plans to give the central register legal effect in the form of legislation at this stage.
Lu Chongmao said that the Health Bureau, the Health Department, and the Hospital Authority have been working with multiple professional community partners to promote organ donations from different channels and different areas, and in order to establish acceptance and acceptance and acceptance andPromote the culture of organ donation and the consciousness and willingness of citizens to donate organs.
The Hong Kong Medical and Health Bureau reported last month and found that the organ donation registration system was unusual cancellation.Data show that during the five months from December 2022 to April this year, a total of 5,785 applications were canceled, of which 2905 were never registered, but they applied for an invalid cancellation application for exit or repeated cancellation.The official suspected that someone destroyed the organ donation registration system, disrupted the representativeness of the central register and increased the administrative burden of government personnel.
In this regard, Ge Yifan, a member of the Legislative Council of the Civil Construction Federation of Hong Kong, suggested that the Hong Kong government's modification mechanism and referring to the will of the will, so that organ donors have legal effect.