Taiwan mulls mechanism to phase out transplant hospitals

 17-Jun-16, The China Post

Taiwan's government is considering a mechanism to phase out some of the 26 organ transplantation hospitals that have undertaken few transplant operations. 

The National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) has sent the conclusion of a meeting on a phase-out mechanism to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW). The MHW will announce its decision within a month at the earliest.

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Lee Po-Chang (李伯璋), chief of the NHIA and chairman of Taiwan Organ Registry and Sharing Center, was quoted as saying that the preliminary mechanism includes a system that red flags transplantation hospitals that conduct less than one heart transplant, less than four liver transplants, less than six kidney transplants, or less than 10 cornea transplants in four years.

A red-flagged hospital would be put under review by a panel of experts and could lose its status as a transplantation facility, Lee said.

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