About Organ Donation Coordination Services
In 1988, Organ donation coordination service was started by 2 nurses in Queen Mary hospital. Our specialty provides territory-wide service to HK, Kowloon & the new territories 24 hours service to facility the process of organ donation and transplantation.
Hospital Authority put more resources and emphases on organ donation and transplantation services over the years, the Organ Donation Coordination Service has extended to all seven clusters under Hospital Authority (HA) with more organ donation coordinators joined the service.
Milestones of Hong Kong Organ Transplantation
Our Services
Organ donation and procurement process involves numerous efforts among various disciplines; Organ Donation Coordinator (ODC) plays a pivotal coordination role in the whole organ donation process.
At the time of donation, Organ Donation Coordinator works closely with the medical and nursing staffs on the referring unit, as well as with the donor’s family.
We build a healthy relationship with the front line staffs and the deceased donors’ families. We help to create a positive environment for the families of brain dead patients and counselling the families for organ donation in making the donation successful.
Follow up information regarding the outcome of the donation is provided for both the donor hospital staff as well as the donor’s relatives.
One of our major roles is education, appropriate education programs are provided for both health care professionals and general public to increase the awareness of organ donation, particular emphasis for frontline staff where most of the donors are identified.
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1st Combined Heart-Lung Transplant
1st Lung Transplant
1995
1st liver transplant (Living)
1993
1st Heart Transplant
1st Skin Transplant
1992
1st Bone Transplant
1st Liver Transplant
1991
1st Kidney Transplant (Living)
1980
1st Kidney Transplant (Deceased)
1969
1st Cornea Transplant
1961
Centralised Organ Donation Register
In November 2008, the Government established the Centralised Organ Donation Register (CODR) to make it more convenient for people to register their wish to donate organs after death.
The Register enables authorised personnel (such as the Hospital Authority's Organ Donation Coordinators) to promptly arrange for organ transplants, so that more waiting patients will benefit.
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