Vitanova
Tissue donation improves and saves lives, and offers a second chance at mobility, sight, or a life with less pain. Vitanova wants every South African who can donate to know, care, and talk about tissue donation.
What We Do
About Us
Our Name, Vitanova – means ‘new life’ & that is what we do every day – give new life through tissue donation.
One of only two multi-tissue banks in South Africa, Vitanova educates the South African public on tissue donation and actively encourages registration as an organ and tissue donor.
We also assist the families of potential donors through the donation journey, with support, information, and guidance.
When families consent to donation, tissue recovery is done by our professional recovery technicians in a respectful manner and according to international standards and ethical code of conduct.
Our Herritage
Vitanova, the connective tissue bank of South Africa, is a division of Bone SA, a non-profit company which has, for the last 30 years worked tirelessly to improve patients’ access to high-quality, safe transplantable allografts.
To ensure that every patient who needs human tissue for transplantation or implantation is served, Vitanova was established on the SAMRC’s Delft site, in the Western Cape in 2020.
Ethics is important
Every person who donates, and every family who agrees to donation deserves our very best for the immeasurable gift that they gave.
That’s why we work as part of the wider transplantation community in South Africa, adhere to relevant laws and regulations, conform to international best practices, and strive to adhere to international quality standards in tissue donation, processing, and storage.
Quick registration.
A minute of your time can mean a lifetime for someone else.
Register as an organ and tissue donor.