organ transplant Archives

30 December 2025

Malaysia

Dzulkefly Revives Organ Transplant As 2026 National Agenda

Dr Dzul is making organ transplant a national agenda next year, including amendments to the Human Tissue Act, public-private partnerships to form a national procurement team, and a new campaign to ensure families honour organ donation pledgers' wishes.

26 December 2025

Malaysia

Local Shortages Drive Rich Malaysians Abroad For Illegal Organ Transplants

Shortages in transplant capacity, including facilities and specialists, are sending wealthy Malaysians abroad for costly organ transplants, even though organ trade is illegal. These patients lose access to government-funded immunosuppressants back home.

24 December 2025

Malaysia

Display Organ Donor Status On Driving Licence, MyKad: Health PSSC

The Health PSSC suggests adding organ donor status to driving licences or MyKad after new registrations on MySejahtera plunged. MOH officials are also weighing an opt-out system as Malaysia continues to record among the world's lowest organ donation rates.

15 December 2025

Malaysia

Family Refusal Blocks 90% Of Potential Organ Donations, Says MOH

Nearly 90% of potential cadaveric organ donations in Malaysia are blocked by deceased donors' families, leaving 21 people on the transplant waiting list to die each day. "We have many pledgers," says NTRC. " that does not mean they are our supply."

7 April 2023

Malaysia

MOH: Organ Trade And Trafficking Illegal In Malaysia

The Health DG says claims of organ trade must be taken seriously and can be investigated under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act. Malaysia has also signed the Istanbul Declaration that opposes transplant commercialism.

19 September 2022

Malaysia

MySejahtera Omits Explicit Consent From Pledged Organ Donors

Besides lacking the pledged organ donor’s explicit consent, digital signature, and info on which body parts or whether all organs & tissues are consented to for donation, MySejahtera’s organ donation pledge card can't be viewed on a phone’s locked screen.

11 January 2022

Letter

When Pigs Don’t Fly, Transplant Matters — Dr Ghazali Ahmad

In Malaysia, except in the final quarter of 2021, when a handful of kidney and liver transplants were performed, all organ transplant programmes stopped for the rest of the year, and also 2020.

11 January 2022

World

Man With Terminal Heart Disease Gets Genetically Modified Pig Heart

Surgeons hope the US patient's body can accept the genetically modified organ.

2 June 2020

World

Americans Waiting Longer For Organ Donations During Pandemic

Hospitals with organ transplant centres in the US also face challenges like shortages of protective gear, ventilators and ICU beds, and health care staff.

Tag: organ transplant

Dzulkefly Revives Organ Transplant As 2026 National Agenda

Local Shortages Drive Rich Malaysians Abroad For Illegal Organ Transplants

Display Organ Donor Status On Driving Licence, MyKad: Health PSSC

Family Refusal Blocks 90% Of Potential Organ Donations, Says MOH

MOH: Organ Trade And Trafficking Illegal In Malaysia

MySejahtera Omits Explicit Consent From Pledged Organ Donors

When Pigs Don’t Fly, Transplant Matters — Dr Ghazali Ahmad

Man With Terminal Heart Disease Gets Genetically Modified Pig Heart

Americans Waiting Longer For Organ Donations During Pandemic

Pork Importers Back Pig Farming Ban In Selangor

Time To Phase Out Colonial-Era PTD Scheme From Malaysia’s Civil Service

Sultan Sharafuddin Wants Total Pig Farming Ban In Selangor

Half Of EPF Members Have Under RM50,000, KWAP Warns Of ‘Optimism Bias’

Critical Manpower Shortage, Unsafe Working Conditions At HTAR Klang — Medical Officer