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The dying person: death from illness, disaster, death penalty. . . . . . Such people have clear consciousness and are willing to donate certain parts of their body organs. Verbal applications can be made.

Normal people who are willing to donate organs after death must apply in writing. It must be notarized by a notary public at your own expense.

After the application is completed, it will be recorded by the Civil Affairs Bureau.

The specific measures vary from place to place, for example, some require confidentiality. You can contact the local Civil Affairs Bureau for this matter. The registration acceptance station shall issue a "Voluntary Remains Donation Memorial Certificate" uniformly printed by the Provincial Red Cross Society to the formal registrants.

The following are the "Regulations on Remains and Organ Donation" for your reference:

Chapter 1 General Provisions

Article 1 In order to regulate the donation of remains and organs, To protect the legitimate rights and interests of all parties involved in donation and receipt, promote the spirit of selfless dedication, develop medical science, and promote social progress, these regulations are formulated based on the actual conditions of this province.

Article 2 These regulations apply to the donation of remains and organs and related activities within the administrative region of this province.

The remains mentioned in these regulations refer to the body of a natural person after death.

The organs referred to in these regulations refer to human organs and human tissues of natural persons except blood, sperm, eggs, and embryos.

Article 3 Donation of remains and organs should follow the principle of voluntariness and free of charge. The transplantation of donated organs should follow the principles of science, justice and fairness. The sale of remains and organs is prohibited.

Article 4: Donors’ donation behavior and personal dignity are protected by law and respected by society.

The donor’s close relatives should respect the donor’s donation wishes and support the donor’s donation behavior.

Article 5: Health administrative departments at or above the county level are responsible for body and organ donation within their respective administrative regions. Civil affairs, justice, public security, education, science and technology and other departments should carry out work related to body and organ donation in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

The local Red Cross is responsible for the registration, consultation, organ transplantation and other organizational services of body and organ donation.

Article 6 Local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments and units shall take measures to encourage citizens to donate bodies and organs.

News media such as radio, television, newspapers, and the Internet should strengthen the publicity of body and organ donation and promote the formation of good social customs.

Schools where conditions permit should carry out popular science education on body and organ donation.

Article 7: Local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments may commend and reward donors of remains and organs, as well as units and individuals who have made outstanding achievements in the donation of remains and organs.

Chapter 2 Body Donation

Article 8 Natural persons with full capacity for civil conduct may donate bodies. If a natural person with limited capacity for civil conduct is willing to donate his body, he must obtain the written consent of his guardian.

Article 9 Donors who donate bodies must go through registration procedures, fill in the registration form and sign and seal it. The registration form shall state the basic information of the donor, the relevant information of the donation executor and the opinions agreeing to the execution, the unit receiving the remains, and other matters.

Local Red Cross societies at all levels and their entrusted registration units are the registration agencies for body donation. The registration agency shall publish its name, address, contact information, working hours, etc. to the public.

Article 10: Donors who need to register for body donation can go to the registration agency to register, or they can ask the registration agency to come to register.

If the donor does not choose a body-receiving unit, the local Red Cross Society will determine the body-receiving unit.

The registration unit entrusted by the local Red Cross Society shall regularly report the registration status of body donation to the entrusted Red Cross Society, and the Red Cross Society shall promptly notify the relevant body receiving unit.

The registration agency, body receiving unit and staff shall keep the registered matters confidential and shall not disclose them.

Article 11 The donation executor entrusted and registered by the donor can be a close relative of the donor, or other natural person, or the donor’s work unit, the villagers’ committee of the place of residence, or the elderly care institution. institutions and other organizations.

Article 12 After completing the registration procedures for body donation, the donor may change the registration content or cancel the registration. The registration agency shall promptly change or cancel the registration.

Article 13 The Provincial Red Cross Society shall uniformly print body donation registration forms, donation cards and certificates of honor.

Donors are encouraged to carry their donation cards with them at all times.

Article 14 Units that meet the following conditions can become bodies receiving units after registering with the Provincial Red Cross Society:

(1) Have the ability to carry out medical teaching and medical scientific research

(2) Have institutions and personnel engaged in receiving remains;

(3) ) There are equipment and places suitable for carrying out the work of receiving remains.

The body receiving unit can serve as the body donation registration unit entrusted by the Red Cross.

Article 15 After the death of the donor, the donation executor shall promptly notify the body receiving unit, and the body receiving unit shall accept the body and go through the acceptance procedures within 24 hours after receiving the notification.

If the donation executor is unable to perform the donation for any reason, the donor's work unit or the residents' (village) committee, elderly care institution and other organizations in the place of residence may promptly notify the corresponding receiving unit or the local Red Cross Society.

In the event of death due to sudden factors, relevant units and individuals shall promptly notify the donation executor or the local Red Cross when they learn that the deceased is a donor.

After receiving the body, the body receiving unit shall file a record with the local Red Cross Society within ten days.

Article 16 The body receiving unit shall properly manage the donated remains and establish a file for the use of the remains; when using the remains, a ceremony shall be held to show respect for the remains and the donor, and no insult shall be allowed to the remains. Be responsible for the cremation of the remains after use, and bear the transportation fees, cremation fees and other related expenses of the remains.

Local Red Cross societies and body-receiving units can set up memorial facilities for body donors.

Chapter 3 Organ Donation

Article 17: Natural persons who are over 18 years old and have full capacity for civil conduct may donate living organs, and they must have written proof of consent to donation before donation. . Donors who donate living organs should not endanger their life safety.

If a natural person is willing to donate organs after death, he should have written proof of consent to donation; if he only expresses his consent to donation verbally, he should meet the following conditions:

(1) Have a spouse and written certificates from two doctors;

(2) If there is no spouse, there shall be written certificates from parents or adult children and two doctors;

(3) If there is no spouse, parents, adult If there are children, there must be written certificates from two other close relatives and two doctors;

(4) If there are no close relatives, there must be written certificates from the residents’ (village) committees, elderly care institutions, etc. of their workplace or residence. organization and written certification from two physicians.

Article 18: Donors may designate donated living organs for transplantation to close relatives.

Article 19: Donors may donate organs to unspecified recipients.

Donors who donate organs to an unspecified recipient must register with the local Red Cross Society. The Red Cross Society of the districted city and county (city, district) shall submit the registration status to the Provincial Red Cross Society within three days.

The local Red Cross Society may entrust a medical institution to register, and the medical institution shall report the registration status to the entrusted Red Cross Society within three days.

Article 20 Donation registration requires filling in a registration form, which should state the donor’s basic information, the name of the donated organ, and other matters.

After registration, a donor can change the registration content or cancel the registration, and the registration agency should make changes or cancel it in a timely manner.

The registration agency, relevant units and staff shall keep the registered matters confidential and shall not disclose them.

Article 21 The Provincial Red Cross Society shall establish an information database for organ donation and transplantation. The Provincial Red Cross Society can raise funds for the construction and management of the information database, and the Provincial People's Government and its relevant departments should provide support.

Article 22: Organ removal from the donor’s body must be confirmed by two or more doctors before the death of the donor can be carried out.

Doctors who confirm the death of a donor are not allowed to participate in the removal or implantation of organs from the deceased.

If the donor's body needs to undergo judicial appraisal or if the appraisal determines that further inspection is needed, the organs from the body shall not be removed.

Article 23: After doctors remove organs from the donor’s body, they should properly handle the removed parts.

After a medical institution harvests an organ donated to an unspecified recipient, it shall promptly transfer it to the medical institution that performs organ transplantation in accordance with the requirements of medical technology, and the medical institution that performs organ transplantation shall report it to the province within ten days. Red Cross filing.

Article 24 Individuals who need to receive organ transplants donated by non-close relatives shall apply to the Provincial Red Cross Society with relevant certificates from medical institutions or to the Provincial Red Cross Society through medical institutions.

The Provincial Red Cross Society shall register the applicants in the order in which they apply, and load the application contents into the organ donation and transplantation information database. Registration content may not be deleted or changed without the applicant's written request.

Article 25: If donated organs are used for unspecified recipients, the provincial Red Cross Society will determine the transplant recipient according to the chronological order of application registration in the donation and transplant organ information database.

If you donate an organ to an unspecified recipient, you and your close relatives will have priority when receiving organ transplants donated by others. If two or more people enjoy priority, the provincial Red Cross Society will determine the order based on the time of application for registration.

If the medical institution that performs the transplant operation deems that the recipient is not suitable for transplant based on medical technology and relevant indicators of donated organs, the provincial Red Cross Society will determine the next recipient. In emergency situations where donated organs may lose their usefulness, medical institutions can perform transplants first and report in writing to the Provincial Red Cross Society within ten days.

Article 26 The provincial health administrative department may access relevant information in the organ donation and transplantation information database and supervise the transplantation sequencing. If the relevant parties have objections to the ranking, they may complain to the provincial health administrative department. The provincial health administrative department shall investigate and verify the complaint and provide a written reply to the complainant within ten days after receiving the complaint.

Chapter 4 Legal Responsibilities

Article 27 If anyone buys or sells human remains in violation of the provisions of Article 3, Paragraph 3 of these Regulations, the illegal gains shall be confiscated by the health administrative department, and the purchase and sale shall be punished. Both parties will be fined three to five times the transaction amount.

Whoever violates the provisions of Paragraph 3 of Article 3 of these Regulations and resells organs shall have the illegal gains confiscated by the health administration department and impose a fine of seven to ten times the transaction amount; medical institutions that resell organs shall also impose penalties on The person in charge and other directly responsible personnel who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the law and their practicing certificates shall be revoked; medical personnel who resell organs shall also be punished in accordance with the law and their practicing certificates shall be revoked; for those who buy and sell organs, the health administration shall The department confiscated illegal gains.

Article 28 If, in violation of the provisions of Paragraph 4 of Article 10 and Paragraph 3 of Article 20 of these Regulations, the registration agency, relevant units and staff leak donor registration matters, the competent department or The unit where the staff member works shall provide criticism and education; if the circumstances are serious, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the law.

Article 29: Anyone who violates the provisions of Paragraph 1 of Article 14 of these Regulations and accepts remains from a unit that has not been registered by the Provincial Red Cross Society shall be ordered by the health administration department to stop the illegal act; if the circumstances are serious, A fine of not less than RMB 10,000 but not more than RMB 30,000 shall be imposed. The illegally accepted remains will be arranged by the Provincial Red Cross Society to qualified corpse receiving units, and the illegally accepted remains will be disposed of by the illegally accepting units.

Article 30: Anyone who violates the provisions of Paragraph 1 of Article 16 of these Regulations and improperly handles the remains after use, or behaves in an insulting manner, shall be given a warning by the health administrative department; if the circumstances are serious, the person shall be given a warning by the health administration department; The Provincial Red Cross Society will revoke the registration of the body receiving unit; if it constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility will be pursued in accordance with the law.

Article 31: Doctors who violate the provisions of Article 22 of these Regulations and remove organs without authorization shall be punished by their units in accordance with the law; if the circumstances are serious, their practicing certificates shall be revoked by the health administrative department; constitute Anyone who commits a crime shall be held criminally responsible in accordance with the law.

Article 32 If, in violation of the provisions of Article 25 of these Regulations, the Provincial Red Cross Society staff fails to determine the transplant organ recipient according to the order of applicants, the Provincial Red Cross Society department head shall and the directly responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions in accordance with the law, and the provincial health administrative department shall impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 30,000 yuan on the directly responsible personnel.

Article 33 If the health administrative departments, local Red Cross societies, medical institutions and their staff fail to perform their duties, engage in malpractice for personal gain, or abuse their powers during the implementation of these Regulations, their competent departments or staff shall The unit where the person works shall punish the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel in accordance with the law; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be pursued in accordance with the law.

Chapter 5 Supplementary Provisions

Article 34 The close relatives of the donor referred to in these regulations refer to the donor’s spouse, parents, children, brothers, sisters, grandparents, and maternal grandparents. , grandchildren, grandchildren.

Article 35 These Regulations shall come into effect on September 1, 2005. (Local regulations)

Finally, I wish you good health and a safe life! !