Parliament Approves Monitoring System for Transplantations
Published: Wednesday, Sep 13th 2023, 15:00
Updated At: Friday, Oct 13th 2023, 14:12
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The Swiss government has taken a number of measures to increase safety in transplantations. The National Council approved the changes to the Transplantation Law with 167 votes to 6 and 10 abstentions. The Vigilance System, which is part of the European Medical Product Law, will be introduced. This system will require serious incidents and unwanted reactions to be reported. The revision will also create the formal legal basis for the operation of databases, the processing of sensitive personal data, and the core elements of the Cross-Living Donation Program. The Cross-Living Donation Program assigns donated kidneys to compatible recipients when a direct living donation is not possible due to incompatibility. The National Council also wants the Federal Council to be able to query the donation readiness of a person with Swisstransplant, the national allocation body for donor organs. The Council rejected a minority proposal from the SVP to ban organ removal after permanent cardiac arrest with 140 votes to 33 and 3 abstentions. The criteria for determining brain death and the distinction between brain death and coma are already clear.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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