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Transplant and donor registry developments in Romania

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Medical efforts to support transplant patients in Romania have focused on both expanding domestic donor registries and utilizing international cooperation. The National Registry of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors in Romania has grown to over 114,000 participants, having facilitated 696 transplants over 14 years. However, officials report that approximately 30% of patients fail to find compatible donors in international registries, prompting calls for higher local registration rates to leverage regional genetic similarities. ~~In addition~~ Traian Laurian Arghisan, director of the institution, emphasized that more than 5% of the Romanian population should be registered to ~~stem cell efforts, cross-border~~ improve success rates. To support this, the Regional Institute of Oncology Iași is launching a recruitment campaign targeting healthy individuals between 18 and 45. Cross-border cooperation ~~has facilitated~~ continues to facilitate organ transplants. Following a 2021 memorandum between Bulgaria and Romania, a Bulgarian donor from Veliko Tarnovo provided organs that enabled two kidney transplants and one liver transplant for Romanian citizens at the Fundeni Clinical Institute. Domestically, organ donation rates in Romania have shown signs of recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Guenady Vatachi, head of the National Transplant Agency, noted that in 2025, organ removals rose to 91, a 10% increase compared to the 83 removals recorded in the post-pandemic period. Recent domestic donations between October 15 and 19 enabled 12 transplants across facilities in Sibiu, Bucharest, and Cluj-Napoca.

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