Appeal Message from the Secretary for Health

With the advancement in medical skills and technology, patients in need may now find a second chance at life through organ transplantation, lighting up hope for patients and their family members.

Thanks to the effort of the community at large, including healthcare professionals and non-governmental organisations, we have cultivated a culture of organ donation in Hong Kong, as can be seen by the extensive media coverage on reports about organ donation from time to time. Despite increase in the cumulative number of registrations in the Centralised Organ Donation Register (CODR), in practice, only a small proportion of deceased persons can meet the clinical conditions for organ donation. As such, we need as many people as possible to register their wish to donate organs so that more patients in need of organ transplant may benefit from CODR.

I would like to take this opportunity to appeal to members of the public to register their wish to donate organs immediately via the Department of Health’s CODR website, and to make known your wish to your family members. Let’s give those in urgent need a second chance at life!

Professor Chung-mau Lo, BBS, JP

Secretary for Health