The states that want to stop the illegal transplantation of organs and related practices must register the organ banks and hospitals where transplants are made, consider the experts taking part in a regional consultative meeting centering on the transplant of organs, cells and tissue in the CIS held in Chisinau, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The authorities have to maintain registers to follow who, when and to whom they donated organs so as to know the situation of organ donors and beneficiaries. I’m not sure anyone in this country knows what happens to the donors,” Luc Noel, expert of the World Health Organization (WHO), said on March 9. According to the expert, the money is not the major problem in combating the illegalities related to the transplant of organs. “Not money but a strict legislation and its strict implementation is more needed in this case,” said Luc Noel. According to Adrian Tanase, the head of the Urology, Dialysis and Transplant Clinic of the National Hospital, the Moldovan legislation in the field punishes severely the offenses related to the trafficking in organs. He said that no cases of illegal transplant were recorded in Moldova, although there are people that still offer to sell their own organs. Besides representatives of the CIS countries, the meeting is also attended by WHO transplantology experts from Spain, the United States, the UK and Switzerland. The aim of the meeting is to sum up the results achieved and the regional priorities in the area and to coordinate the basic components needed to insure efficient control and vigilantly supervise the transplantation of organs, cells and tissue at national level. Under the law, the institution that should regulate the transplant of organs in Moldova is the Agency for Transplant. But this institution was not yet founded though the legislation regarding its activity was adopted a year ago.