Organ recipient registration

From the Thai Red Cross Organ Donation Center

From a living donor

1. Patients will be assessed for their physical and mental readiness before receiving an organ transplant.

1. The donor must be related to the recipient in one of the following ways:

• Being a blood relative such as father or mother, child, siblings born from the same parents or siblings from different fathers or mothers, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, or cousins (proven by legal evidence and medical evidence using the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) and/or DNA testing)
• Being a spouse, a legal wife or husband of the recipient, having been registered as a married couple for no less than 3 years or having lived together as husband and wife openly up to the day of the organ transplant surgery for no less than 3 years; if they have a child together, the 3-year marriage requirement can be exempted with the child’s DNA testing confirm the spouses’ relationship.

2. Patients take care of themselves, getting prepared for a transplant while waiting for a donated organ. If treated regularly at a different hospital, patients are requested to bring treatment results and other test results when visiting the hospital to see a doctor and notify him of changes in symptoms and treatments.

2. The patient will be assessed for both physical and mental readiness before receiving an organ transplant surgery. In this case, the patient and the donor must have a document certifying the relationship by a forensic doctor, and approval must be granted by the hospital's organ transplant subcommittee for the organ transplant from a living donor.

Requirements include documents certifying a blood relationship or a genetic relationship between the donor and the recipient as proved by medical testing of HLA or DNA, for example. Otherwise, the donor and the recipient have been legally married for at least three years, or have lived openly as husband and wife with the organ recipient for at least three years. If they have a child together, the 3-year marriage requirement can be exempted. If there’s any issue, HLA or DNA testing can be used as proof.

Alternately, certification can be sought from the respective embassy or agency responsible for the operations of persons of the recipient's nationality, to verify the genetic relationship by HLA or DNA testing as medical evidence or any other means of proving considered of comparable reliability by a government medical institution in Thailand.

Living donors

Living donors can donate a kidney and a part of the liver.

Brain-dead donors

Organs that can be donated include the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, and tissues that can be transplanted to patients waiting for donations include cornea, skin, and bones.

Spouse or children who have reached the legal age or father or mother

Siblings

Relatives (uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews) who have reached the legal age

Heart donors

under 50 years old

Liver donors

under 65 years old, if necessary, possibly up to 75

Kidney donors

under 70 years old

Eye donors

Two years old and over

No chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease or liver disease

The organs to be donated must have normal or near-normal function.

No infectious diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, which can be transmitted through organ transplant

No cancer

Brain dead organ donors must be diagnosed with brain death according to international standards.

Brain Death Declaration Form

Organ donation consent form (by relatives)

For a patient with a legal case,
a forensic doctor must be notified.