LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of March 4, 1997 No. 28-Z

About organ and tissue transplantation of the person

Accepted by the House of Representatives on January 30, 1997

Approved by Council of the Republic on February 18, 1997

This Law is aimed at providing legal and organizational basis of state regulation in the field of organ transplantation and (or) tissues of the person for the purpose of realization of the right of the population of the Republic of Belarus to protection of life and health.

Article 1. The main terms applied in this Law and their determinations

For the purposes of this Law the following main terms and their determinations are applied:

close relatives are parents, adoptive parents (adopters), children including adopted (adopted) brothers and sisters, the grandfather, the grandma, grandsons;

haematopoietic stem cells – combination of the cages received from marrow or peripheral blood, including funic and capable to system recovery of blood formation in case of its defeat owing to disease;

the living donor – person who voluntarily agreed in accordance with the established procedure to organs harvesting and (or) tissues of the person (further – organs harvesting) for organ transplantation and (or) tissues of the person (further – transplantation) to the recipient;

organs harvesting – medical intervention on removal of organs and (or) fabrics at the living or died donor;

bodies and (or) tissues of the person – the anatomic educations (the whole bodies, fragments of bodies, combinations of cages) which are not determining distinctive features of the personality;

cross transplantation – transplantation in which at least two couples participate each of which consists of the living donor and the recipient who are each other relatives or spouses, immunological incompatible among themselves, at the same time the living donor from one couple immunological is compatible to the recipient from other couple and vice versa;

the recipient – the patient to whom transplantation is performed;

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