Human Organ Transplant Act Article 10

Hospitals and physicians may only remove organs and perform transplant operations with the central competent authority’s approval of their qualifications and only for organs in the categories approved. However, removing corneas for the national cornea bank as established by Paragraph 2 of Article 10-1 may be performed by a eye bank technician.The requirements on the aforesaid hospitals, qualifications of the physician and the cornea recovery technician, application procedures, deadline for approval, revocation, and regulations concerning other matters for compliance as stated in the previous paragraph shall be determined by the central competent authority.Hospitals performing organ transplants should report the following details every six months in the manner and format announced by the central competent authority.1. The categories of organs removed.2. Basic information about the donors and recipients.3. Survival status of the recipients.4. Functional status of the transplanted organs.5. Names of the physicians or eye bank technicians who removed the organs and performed the transplant operation.6. Other items specified by the central competent authority.Patients who have received an organ transplant outside the R.O.C. and are going to receive post-transplant follow-up treatment in a domestic hospital shall provide the hospital with the following information in writing: category of the organ transplanted, name of the country in which they received the transplant, name of the hospital where the transplant took place, and name of the physician who performed the transplant; the hospital may report the case according to the provisions in the previous paragraph.