Tehran Times - The health ministry plans to establish a registry system for organ donation shipping, the head of the ministry's management center for transplantation and special diseases said, IRNA reported on Thursday. Mehdi Shadnoush said that the center is now working on a comprehensive map nationwide in order to transfer organs for donation ...

MNA Member of Iranian Parliament's Health Committee said that the number of Iranian people who are interested to donate their own organs has increased to 6 million so far. Member of Iranian Parliament's Health Committee Ali Nobakht said on the commemoration ceremony of National Organ Donation Day in Iran that some 6 million Iranians have received ...

Tehran, June 16, IRNA - The consent rate for organ donation has reached 50 percent in Iran, said the head of the Network for Providing Organs for Transplantation, affiliated with Mashhad Medical University. Ebrahim Khaleqi made the statement in an interview with the English-language newspaper ?Iran Daily? published Monday, elaborating on the reasons ...

Organ transplantation has a long history in Iran. It is believed that Avicenna, the great Iranian physician and philosopher, was the first to suture nerves together. In the modern era, the first transplants in Iran were performed in the 1930s. In recent decades, Iran has managed to show a progressing trend in the number and quality of different types ...