Following a concerted effort by health officials, approximately 70,000 Serbians are registered organ donors, and officials hope to expand the programme to make such life-saving surgeries more common.
Only 86 organs from 38 deceased donors were transplanted in 2010, according to Serbia's Directorate of Biomedicine. The numbers declined in 2011 however, to 56 organs from 24 donors. Currently, only kidney and liver transplants are being performed, although Serbian officials hope that heart transplants will be available soon. The process was derailed in the 1990s, when a large number of cardiologists left Serbia.
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