Málaga, (EFE).- Andalusia has exceeded the number of organ donations for transplants so far this year compared to the first quarter of 2022, as confirmed on Tuesday by the regional coordinator of Donations and Transplants, Domingo Daga.
On the occasion of the annual donation and transplant session in the Malaga sector, he explained to journalists that activity in this field in Andalusia is “extraordinarily good”, with a donation rate of 4 points above the national average, and in so far in 2023 the trend remains the same and even exceeding figures.
He hopes that this will continue throughout the year and that the figures will be beaten and the number of donors and transplants will continue to increase.
There are more than one hundred donors in Andalusia so far this year and he specifies that the transplant programs are working “extraordinarily well”, in the case of Malaga with 57 kidney and 15 liver transplants.
“Andalusia went many years ago from being the autonomous community that was at the bottom of the country” in organ donation “to being the locomotive of the country; Andalusia has donation rates that are above the national average, in Spain it has a significant impact; That Andalusia goes well in coordination and transplants is key for Spain to go well because we are the most populous community in the state ”, he highlighted.
Malaga donation activity
He has presented the donation and transplant activity in 2002 in the Malaga sector, which includes the provinces of Malaga and Almeria and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, although the transplants are carried out at the Regional Hospital of Malaga.
He has highlighted that the data “are very good”; that they recovered from the two years of the pandemic, in which there was an impact, and that 2022 stands at “superimposable” figures to those of 2019, a benchmark prior to the pandemic, with a donation rate above the national average and andalusian
The Malaga sector is an area that contributes many donors to the system, generates a huge number of transplants and maintains “a privileged activity at the national and Andalusian level”.
The donation rate went from 52 donors per million inhabitants, three points above the national average and seven points more than the national average, a figure that qualifies as “extraordinary” with 156 kidney transplants, the Andalusian center with the most transplants of this type in adults in kidney; 50 liver and 9 pancreatic.
Tissue donors in Andalusia
This allowed all patients on the waiting list pending transplantation to do so in “very reasonable times.”
The Málaga Sector, made up of the public hospitals of Málaga (Regional, Virgen de la Victoria, Costa del Sol, Antequera, Axarquía and Serranía), Almería (Torrecárdenas and Poniente), Ceuta and Melilla, has reached 28 organ donations and 37 of fabrics so far in 2023.
69 organ transplants and 25 corneas (tissues) have been performed.
These data in two and a half months are well above the usual, in the same period last year 34 transplants were made.
The donation rate in Malaga stands at 52.6 donors per million population and continues above the target set for the community by the National Transplant Organization of 50 donors per million population by 2022.
The Malaga Sector is in first place in the number of donors in the Andalusian community, since the province of Malaga is the one with the most tissue donors in all of Andalusia.
Regarding donations in cases of euthanasia, the national and Andalusian figures are still small. EFE