The conference attendants included Venerable Thích Thanh Huân, Deputy Chief of the VBS Office; Assoc.Prof.Dr. Trịnh Hòa Bình from the Vietnam Institute of Sociology; Mr. Đồng Văn Hệ, Deputy Director of the National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation; Mr. Nguyễn Mạnh Cường, Vice President of the Central Youth Union of Vietnam.

During the past years, along with the science and technology development, the healthcare sector made important achievements in health protection and healing. However, there is an increasing demand of tissue and organ transplant for chronic patients and patients with fatal diseases, due to functional impairment and irreversibly on parts of the human body such as corneal damage, chronic renal failure, liver and heart failure, myelosuppression ect...

According to the health sector’s statistics 2013, there were 6,000 people with chronic renal failure in need of a kidney transplant, more than 5,000 patients in need of corneal transplant, and more than 1,500 people in need of liver transplant in Hanoi alone. However, due to current donation perspectives, most of people and communities haven’t actively participated in organs donation.

In order to raise youth and students’s awareness on the existing need of transplantating organs and encourage organs donation as a noble gesture of kindness, the National Volunteer Centre in collaboration with the National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation held a dialogue conference with the theme “Donating viscera to share life - Awareness and role of Youth" and launched a movement to encourage “Donating viscera to share life”./.

Source: phatgiao.org.vn