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105 LIFESTYLE-ORGAN EXCHANGES-NEGOTIATIONS

Bulgaria Joins FOEDUS-EOEO Platform for
Managing
Cross-border Organ Exchanges


August 9 (BTA) - Bulgaria has conducted successful negotiations and joins the FOEDUS-EOEO IT platform which provides an important tool for managing cross border organ exchanges, the Bulgarian Health Ministry said in a press release on Thursday.

Ten EU member states are currently members of the platform, which is financed by the European Commission. France is the country in the platform which has offered the highest number of organs, 21, while Italy is the country with the highest number of transplantations of such organs, 16.

Bulgaria is also conducting active negotiations on organ exchanges with Eurotransplant and several leading lung transplantation centres in Germany, Spain, and Austria. The negotiations were initiated after Austria announced it will no longer perform lung transplantations on foreign nationals. IG/ZH

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