Organ and tissue procurement strongly increased during the past decades to become a common activity among accredited hospitals. Structuring efficient regional organ procurement organisations appear as an important goal in order to offer the relevant number and quality of transplants to the patients on the national waiting list maintained by the Etablissement français des Greffes. Two structures acting together coordinate organ and tissue procurement: (i)accredited hospitals allocate some medical and non medical personal interfacing; (ii) the Etablissement français des Greffes through one of its seven regional units or its national unit. These units are in charge with the operational responsibility of multiorgan and tissue retrieval co-ordination in their geographical area, with organ allocation and with an institutional role of local and regional organ procurement development and promotion.
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