Costa Rica
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From 18, registering is your legal consent. At 16 or 17 it records your intent.
What You Can Do
South Africa has no government donor register. The Organ Donor Foundation records your wish and sends you a donor card.
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Organs are donated only with a yes. Since April 28, 2026, tissues such as corneas are presumed donated unless you registered a refusal.
Register Officially
There is no online sign-up. Deliver the signed form in person.
What You Can Do
Trinidad and Tobago has no donor register and no online sign-up.
What You Can Do
Fiji has no donor register and no law on organ, eye or tissue donation.Tell Your FamilyIn several countries the hospital asks them.
Register Officially in Costa Rica
MixedSystem
Any AgeParents Record Minors
RENADONRegistry
Organs are donated only with a yes. Since April 28, 2026, tissues such as corneas are presumed donated unless you registered a refusal.
How to RegisterOrganizations
- Registro Nacional de Donación (RENADON)Nationwide. Government · Contact to Sign Up
- Secretaría Ejecutiva Técnica de Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y TejidosNationwide. Government · No Sign-Up
How to Register
- Record your decision in person at any Área Rectora de Salud, during an appointment at the CCSS, or when you apply for or renew your cédula at the TSE.
- A parent or guardian records the decision on a minor's identity card.
- Every route feeds RENADON, the national registry. Tell your family what you decided.
What the Law Says
Ley 9222 makes your registered decision binding. Organs need a yes; tissues are presumed donated unless you said no.
The Law: 4 Documents
- Ley 9222, Ley de Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos Humanos (in force from April 22, 2014; SCIJ shows version 3 of 3, of May 5, 2022, as current)
- Ley 9916, Reforma Ley de Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos Humanos y derogatoria de la ley N° 6948 (published in La Gaceta 81 and in force from April 28, 2021; presumed consent for tissues; 60 months for the TSE, CCSS and Migración to record decisions; art. 3 also rewrote Código Penal art. 384 ter)
- Ley 10197, Reforma Ley de Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos Humanos (the current text of article 23)
- Decreto Ejecutivo N° 39895-S, Reglamento a la Ley de Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos Humanos (as reformed by Decreto Ejecutivo N° 44364 of December 4, 2023)
Your Family
Your family is asked only when the registry shows no decision for organs or there is real doubt about your wishes.
The Need in Costa Rica
~410people on the kidney transplant waiting list 2024. Source: Ministerio de Salud, Costa Rica
~5 yearsthe average wait for a kidney from a deceased donor 2024. Source: Ministerio de Salud, Costa Rica
