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Voluntary Organ Donation

Voluntary Organ Donation
Voluntary Organ Donation

A total of 1.4 million people have voluntary organ donation cards in the country, said Ali Akbar Velayati, head of Masih Daneshvari Hospital and the Organ Transplant Support Society. “On an average, 700 organ donations (9 per million people) are made annually in the country according to official statistics,” he said, ILNA reported. Iran ranks third worldwide in organ donation and is the only country in the world that has addressed the shortage of transplant organs through a legal payment system for organ donation since 1988. It is also the only country where organ trade is legal. According to global statistics, Spain has the highest rate of organ donation in the world with 36 per million people. Specialized in respiratory and lung diseases, the hospital is affiliated to Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University and has performed nearly 100 lung and 200 heart transplants.

 

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