A special agency is to be created to regulate the organ transplants in Moldova. Implementing the idea implies a number of stages, the Health Minister, Larisa Catrinici, told media on Wednesday. The Ministry is responsible for supervising all the transplant activities and will carry out all the related national policies and programs, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Council of Europe has made it possible to set up the agency. “Moldova is not the first country, neither the last, to have a transplant agency,” a Ministerial expert, Adrian Tanase, has said. He says most of the European countries have such a practice. The Health Ministry officials avoid to unveil how much money is necessary to operate a transplant, saying this is not so important and that the relevant financing will be supplied by the state budget, under the law. Developing this type of service in Moldova has started with transplanting bone tissues. Till 1990, Moldova freely exchanged organs within the former USSR. Yearly the Moldovan doctors operate about 27 transplants, but 100 are needed.