Registry to open for organ donors

Online system to help increase awareness, facilitate transplants

China's first online volunteer organ donor registry will be launched this month to help ease the shortage of organs for transplant, a Red Cross Society of China official has announced.

"By filling out forms on the website, scheduled to open in late June, one can become a volunteer donor upon death," Liu Weixin, deputy director of the society's National Organ Donation Management Center, told China Daily during an event at Jilin University in Changchun, Jilin province.