The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic of Srpska responded to the letter for the delivery of information sent by the Human Rights House Banja Luka regarding the establishment of the stem cell donor registry of the Republic of Srpska, and in the reply it was stated that the competent ministry had prepared a Memorandum on cooperation in the field of transfusion and transplantation medicine between the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare the Republic of Srpska and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia, and that the aforementioned document was forwarded to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia for acknowledgement and coordination.
We would like to remind you that the initiative to establish a stem cell donors registry was submitted on November 7, 2023 to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic of Srpska, and its submitters are the Human Rights House Banja Luka (Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Banja Luka, AC “Hi Neighbour”, Banja Luka Centre for Human Rights, Center for Environment, Transparency International BiH), Foundation United Women, AC “M’UDAR” and Organization of Amputees UDAS of the Republic of Srpska.
Seeing that there is no stem cell donor registry in the Republic of Srpska, and then encouraged by the cases of our two fellow citizens, we submitted an initiative to establish a donors registry in the Republic of Srpska, and preferably in the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or to consider other possibilities that would ensure that persons suffering from malignant blood diseases receive appropriate treatment and care.
The right to life is one of the fundamental human rights. This right often depends on the good will and desire of other people to donate their stem cells or organs in order to save another person’s life, but also on the health system that should enable this.
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