Moldovan living donors of organs to benefit from free of charge insurance policy

Chisinau, 10 June /MOLDPRES/ - Living donors of organs will benefit from free of charge insurance policy on behalf of the state. The parliament adopted a draft law to this effect on 9 June.   

According to the amendments made to the law on health care and the law on mandatory health insurance, all living donors of organs will be registered by the Transplant Agency and will benefit from insurance policy, no matter whether they have a job or not.   

The amendments made see also new regulations to the procedure of drawing human cells and tissues. Thus, the drawing and conservation could also be made in private institutions, yet, only based on an authorization by the Health Ministry (MS) and by specially trained physicians.   

Under the draft, the tissues and cells drawn, if they are not used immediately after transplant, will be processed, stocked and distributed to banks of tissues or legal entities working in the sectors, authorized by MS. All banks and private economic agents will act only based on international standards and will be checked once in two years.

Presently, Moldova has one bank of human tissues at the headquarters of the Traumatology and Orthopedics Clinical Hospital.  

Statistics data provided by MS shows that only one living donor of organs was recorded in Moldova in 2011. The number of these donors grew to six in 2015. 

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)