HISTORY

In 2002, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (formerly the Department of Health) established the Taiwan Organ Registry and Sharing Center (TORSC) in accordance with the Human Organ Transplant Act, which is dedicated to advocating organ donation and the spread of love. The center works with the domestic medical profession to serve as a communication platform between donors, recipients, organ solicitation hospitals, and organ transplant hospitals, and assists the government in the registration of organ donation and transplantation, the establishment of databases and the promotion of the awareness of organ donation, and strive to improve the organ donation rate and the survival rate of organ transplantation in Taiwan.

As our country is progressing to an aging society, the care of the elderly is becoming more and more important, and the demand for hospice and palliative care continues to increase, and the issue of good death has gradually attracted the attention of the public. In 2021, the center has been reorganized and renamed "Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry and Patient Autonomy Promotion Center" (hereinafter referred to as "the Center"). The resources related to the three laws of the Law of Rights (referred to as the three laws of the end of life), re-plan the future end of life, death with dignity and organ recruitment policies, encourage the public to think about the various options of the end of life in advance, and share thoughts on the end of life with family members, in order to achieve a good death ultimate goal.

  Structure of Organization：

The Center is divided into four sections, each of which is responsible for the following activities:

Organ Donation and Transplant Registry Section

Ø Establishing national standard operating procedures for organ donation, allocation, transplantation, and post-operative follow-up

Ø Maintaining the operation of the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)

Ø Conducting organ donation and transplant hospital visits and accreditation

Ø Providing care services for organ donors' families and recipients

Ø Setting up national organ or tissue banks

 Patient Autonomy Promotion Section

Ø Discuss the process of good death and improve related standard operating procedures.

Ø Develop and promote hospital reward programs, and allow medical institutions to share resources.

Ø Planning and conducting interviews and certifications for patient autonomy and hospice palliative care.

Ø Provide counseling for patient autonomy and hospice palliative care.

Ø Planning and integrating community hospice palliative care resources.

 Planning and R&D Section

Ø Manage promotional activities and programs related to Good Death.

Ø Producing promotional materials and publications.

Ø Organizing education and training for professionals.

Ø Conducting resource development and public relations activities

Ø Handle domestic and foreign academic exchanges and promote academic research.

Ø Volunteer management and training

Administration Section

Ø building and maintaining a national organ donation and transplant database and managing the registration process

Ø Maintaining the organ allocation system and compiling and reporting organ donation and transplant statistics

Ø Managing databases of advance decisions, hospice and palliative care and organ donation willingness and registries

Ø Developing, reviewing, and maintaining human resources, general affairs, accounting and information related practices and tracking their effectiveness