Vietnam Scraps Child Organ Donors Proposal After Backlash
The revised draft keeps posthumous organ donation for adults only while still allowing minors to give bone marrow or stem cells to relatives.
- Vietnam scrapped a proposal on Monday permitting teenagers aged 15 to 17 to donate organs posthumously, bowing to public backlash in a nation where deceased-donor transplants remain scarce.
- A draft presented to the National Assembly last month would have allowed minors to register as posthumous donors with parental permission, igniting controversy over whether parental consent could shield children from coercion.
- National Assembly deputy Pham Khanh Phong Lan opposed the provision last month, arguing, "You cannot sacrifice one child to save another." Criticism also centered on whether minors could grasp complex medical and ethical issues.
- Officials revised the draft to restrict posthumous organ donation to adults aged 18 and older, according to Tuoi Tre. Living minors may still donate regenerative tissue to family members under medical oversight and consent requirements.
- Vietnam is modernizing its 2006 organ-donation law to expand life-saving transplants within a system dominated by living donors. The revised draft faces approval this month.
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The draft proposes additional measures to strictly control the donation, procurement, and transplantation of tissues and organs, aiming to protect the rights of donors and prevent the risk of profiteering. The Ministry of Health explains that while it 'opens' opportunities to save patients' lives, it 'tightens' the management of organ donation and transplantation. It also aims to prevent the buying and selling of human tissues and organs and pro…
The Ministry of Health has withdrawn the proposal to allow individuals under 18 to register for tissue, organ, and body donation. Instead, only living tissue donation for the treatment of siblings will be permitted, under stricter conditions.
The latest draft of the Law on Donation, Procurement, and Transplantation of Human Tissues, Organs, and Bodies, and Donation and Procurement of Cadavers (amended) has removed the provision allowing individuals under 18 years of age to register for tissue, organ, or body donation.
The Ministry of Health withdraws proposal allowing individuals under 18 to donate tissue to their parents: The Ministry of Health has officially withdrawn the proposal allowing individuals under 18 to donate regenerative tissue while alive to their parents, only permitting donations to siblings under strict conditions.
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