Spain reaffirms world leader position with record donation and transplant figures
Last year, Spanish hospitals implanted almost 6,000 organs, a record number, and increased their world leadership in donations
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Last year, Spanish hospitals implanted almost 6,000 organs, a record number, and increased their world leadership in donations
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has applauded the great work of health professionals, which has allowed Spain to achieve the rate of 48.9 donors per million population (pmp) and 122.1 transplants pmp; The latter exceeds that recorded in 2019, the best year in transplant activity so far. In 2023, organ donation and transplant activity
In South Africa, the demand for donor organs far outstrips the supply – not because people aren’t signing up for donation, but because there aren’t policies in place to manage the transplant chain. Spain has managed to fix the problem. Can we learn from them?
The acting Minister of Health, José Miñones, has presented ‘Match Tour’, the new campaign of the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Josep Carreras Foundation to promote bone marrow donation, which starts this Friday in Barcelona and will tour 17 cities until October 31. Promoting the Spanish Registry of Bone Marrow Donors (REDMO) with
According to recent research, a larger number of donated hearts could potentially be used for transplantation if they are kept operational in the body for a brief period after the donor's death. The technique involves restoring regional blood flow to the heart, lungs, and abdominal organs (but no