Ministry of Health: Ministerial Decision 298/2022 Amending Some Porvisions of the Governance Regulation of the Transfer and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues

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Based on Royal Decree 36/2014 Determining the Competences of the Ministry of Health,

Royal Decree 80/2020 Adopting the Organisational Structure of the Ministry of Health,

the Law Governing the Practice of the Medical Profession and Allied Health Professions promulgated by Royal Decree 75/2019,

and the Governance Regulation of the Transfer and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues issued by Ministerial Decision 179/2018,

and in pursuance of public interest,

it is hereby decided

Article I

The text of article 11 of the Governance Regulation of the Transfer and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues is hereby replaced with the following text:

Article 11

Death shall be established—for the purpose of transplantation of human organs and tissues from the deceased—by a report by 2 (two) physicians, none of whom shall have a grade lower than consultant in neurology, anaesthesiology, or intensive care, provided that none of them is a member of the medical team specialising in the transplantation of the human organ or tissue.

Article II

This decision shall be published in the Official Gazette, and comes into force on the day following the date of its publication.

Issued on: 6 Rabi Al-Thani 1444
Corresponding to: 1 November 2022

Dr Hilal bin Ali bin Hilal Al-Sabti
Minister of Health

Published in Official Gazette 1466 issued on 6 November 2022.