The next session of the Social Council on protection of the rights of patients has taken place in the conference hall of the National Scientific Medical Centre in Astana. The Council is assigned to the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan. On the agenda of this session two questions were discussed:

1. Development of transplantology in the Republic of Kazakhstan 
2. Opioid substitution therapy (OST).

The vice-president of the foundation "АYALA" Zhangeldy Sarsenov is a member of this Council from the date of its creation. It is good that official bodies began to give consideration to cooperation with the non-governmental organizations. We are glad to support our government in solving of various problems, including contribution to the work of such consultative organizations.

Five decisions have been arisen from the session of the Council:

1. To make amendment to subordinate regulatory acts (orders of Ministry of Healthcare) related to voluntary donorship of bodies. 
2. To recommend acceptance of a presumption of "disagreement" to donorship of organs in the Republic of Kazakhstan. 
3. To begin propaganda of a posthumous donorship of bodies among youth – military men, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the drivers receiving the driver's license, etc. еру
4. Do not expand the project about opioid substitutive therapy on the republican level until an objective concept of this pilot project will be found out. All insititutions interested in this project should provide all necessary information for objectification of the project data till 2012. 
5. To refrain from populistic statements and articles in mass media both for and against therapeutic methods.