Moldovan cabinet approves national transplant programme for 2017-2021

Chisinau, 15 March /MOLDPRES/ - The cabinet of ministers, at a today’s meeting, approved a national transplant programme for 2017-2021 and an action plan on its implementation. The document’s goal is to develop a performant system of transplant and ensure citizens’ access to operations of transplant of human organs, textures and cells, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

Thus, the authorities are set to improve the quality of the medical services provided, aiming at increasing the number of kidney transplant operations by 60 per cent and the liver transplant ones by 45 per cent against 2016. Also, among the goals established in the programme, there is a ten-per cent increase of the number of transplant of textures, starting the cardiopulmonary transplant, as well as the extension of actions to inform the citizens in the transplant sector.      

At the same time, to increase the number of donors and extend the service of coordinating the transplant, the government proposes to strengthen the capacities of the Transplant Agency, create a Centre of Excellence in the field, as well as set up a national network of coordinating the drawing of organs and textures of human origin.  

The programme’s provisions are to be implemented by the specialized medical and sanitary institutions from the health system, and the actions provided for the 2017-2021 years will be financed from the state budget, with an estimative cost of about 420,000 lei. The document approved is the second national programme in the transplant sector, with the first one carried out in 2012-2016.