Belarus has every chance of getting into the world’s top 20 transplantation countries

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Belarus has every chance of getting into the world’s top 20 transplantation countries, reporters learned from Oleg Rummo, Head of the National Research Center for Organ and Tissue Transplantation.
     Every year the World Health Organization names top 50 transplantation countries. In 2014 Belarus was ranked 28th in the number of organ transplantations per 1 million capita. In 2016 Belarus moved to the 26th position.
Belarus is ranked 7th on the global scale that measures the number of kidney transplantations from deceased donors per 1 million capita. The total number of organ transplantations in Belarus has increased by more than 60 times since 2005. In addition to increasing the number of these most complicated surgical procedures Belarusian medics have managed to improve their quality and diversify the ways they are done.
     According to last year’s data, Belarus is more than two times ahead of Germany in the development of organ donation. Belarus is ahead of the UK, Australia, and Canada. The number of organ transplantations per 1 million capita in Belarus exceeds the figure registered in Russia by five times. Belarus is the leader in the ex-USSR space. However, Belarus has a lot of work to do in order to catch up with the world’s absolute leader in this field — Spain.