Vietnam: Only remove tissues or organs from donors at medical establishments

- Having sufficient medical personnel who are professionally capable and qualified in human organ removal and transplantation, anesthesia and post-transplantation recovery as evidenced in specialty certificates or diplomas granted by medical establishments or training institutions.

- Having the chief of the human organ transplantation team who has personally engaged in transplant operations on humans;

- Having at least three sterilized closed inter-related rooms arranged in a one-way direction, including a room for human organ removal, treatment and preservation, a room for transplantation, and a room for post-transplantation recovery;

- Having a technical room exclusively used for the constant supervision of and care for donors or transplant recipients;

- Having an experimental transplantation unit;

- Having a testing room;

- Having a blood ventilation and dialysis unit for kidney transplantation;

- Having adequate medical equipment and instruments of functional exploration, hematology, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, pathological surgery, diagnostic radiography, and quantification of anti-rejection drugs to ensure the diagnosis and supervision of donors and recipients before, during and after transplantation;

- Having sufficient medicines and drugs to meet the requirements of the process of removal, transplantation and post-transplantation recovery.

View more details at the Law on donation, removal and transplantation of human tissues and organs and the donation and recovery of cadavers 2006 of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2007.

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