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.