Egypt’s health ministry said earlier this week that it is studying a new mechanism through which citizens can posthumously donate their organs to those in need.

Following a meeting with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi earlier this week, his advisor on health Mohamed Tag El Din issued a statement confirming that the government was looking into introducing an organ donation option on Egyptian national ID cards, as is the practice in many countries around the world.

The country’s health minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar told Kelma Akheera, a popular talk show, that Egypt is lagging behind most Arab countries that have introduced organ donation systems successfully.

He singled out the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Morocco as examples of countries that have functioning organ donation systems.