China's first registered organ donor in Shenzhen
( 2003-08-28 10:28) (Agencies)
Zheng Qingbo, 23, a university
graduate beginning his first job in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province,
on Wednesday became the first registered volunteer organ donor in the first
after the city passed the relevant regulations on the donation and transplant of
human organs.
Zheng is a biological engineering major and graduated from the Central China
University of Technology. He has worked in Shenzhen for just two months.
On Wednesday morning he filled out a donation registration in five minutes,
to donate his corneas at the Red Cross of Shenzhen.
Zhao Lizhen, secretary general of the Red Cross in Shenzhen, said that before
the passing of the regulations, six citizens had volunteered to contribute their
bodies after death, 26 citizens had vowed to give their corneas and 6,600
elected to donate bone marrow. Of the marrow donors, 19 had already made
donations.
Although the detailed content of the regulations had not been made public,
Zhao said, the Red Cross was working to set up a platform to promote the
donation and transplant of human organs.
Registered information on donors and receivers will be electronically
recorded in strict order of registration, and patients who need an organ will
have to wait their turn. To ensure a legal process of human organ donation and
transplant, donors and receivers will never know each other's information.
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