Organ donation registration via MySejahtera from Sept 6 - Khairy

The registration of organ donations can be made through the MySejahtera application from tomorrow, Sept 6, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said.

He said this was following the very low rate of organ donations in this country, where Malaysia is among the 10 countries with the lowest transplant rate in the world for 2021 at only 2.84 organ transplants done per million population, according to the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation.

“When people pledge via MySejahtera, the information directly reaches the National Transplant Resource Centre. If there is a case of death in any hospital and eligible for organ donation, it will come out in the system,” Khairy (above) said.

He said this at a press conference yesterday, after closing the national-level Organ Donation Awareness Week in Kuala Lumpur.

Khairy said the number of patients who are still waiting to get an organ donation in Malaysia, as of now, is 10,442 people.

However, he said, only 2,700 transplant cases involving organ donation had been carried out since 1975.

“Based on the latest organ donation statistics from the National Transplant Resource Centre in July 2022, it shows that there have been 779 organ donors after death since 1997. The number of organ donor pledges now stands at 517,758 people since 1997,” he added.

Commenting on the wearing of face masks, Khairy said he would announce the new regulations on face masks on Wednesday.

He said the Public Health Executive Committee, which he chairs, has received recommendations from experts on the use of face masks and the Health Ministry (MOH) is still in the process of gathering the public's views on the matter.

The minister added that three approaches needed to be considered by the MOH before the country moves to the endemic phase, including a declaration from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

In addition, Khairy said the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342) would remain in force until the end of December this year, and all areas in the country were declared as areas of infectious diseases.

The third approach is health indicators that need to be obtained from epidemiologists in the context of the Covid-19 virus which is still mutating.

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