The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea has announced that it will set up a network aimed at increasing organ donations, after an organ donation by the late Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan inspired a sixfold increase in the number of donors. During the four-day conference held from Monday, 22 bishops led by Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk agreed to create the network under its bioethics committee some time later this year, the Korea Times reports.
After Cardinal Kim’s death on Feb. 16, more than 100 people were signing up daily, according to the Korean Organ Donor Program data.
The late cardinal had deeply inspired the public by donating his eyes to two patients.
He had pledged to donate his organs as early as 1990, desiring to “give everything and leave with nothing.”
Less than one out of 10 South Koreans donate their organs while more than 18,000 patients are waiting for transplants.
In Spain, 34 percent of citizens are registered as voluntary organ donors, followed by 22 percent in the U.S. and 20 percent in France.
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