**5.3 Health laws framing heart donation**

Starting with donation programs that electively include people to list themselves as donors similar to blood donation programs is another way of spreading the idea of transplantation. The willingness to donate heart should be a standard practice in the region similar to some countries that include this information on ID cards rather than giving the choice to next of kin after death. Creating regional networks that function locally and regionally within regions like the Gulf and North Africa to facilitate the availability of heart donation as death due to motor vehicle accidents and cerebral vascular accidents are common and both considered opportunities for cardiac availabilities from brain-dead donors in these areas. In Qatar, A donor registry is been established as a national confidential list of people who are willing to become organ donors after their death [28].
