translated from Spanish: Girardi calls to replace term of six months and pending before a notary to ratify no donor status

Senator Guido Girardi, President of the Health Commission and author of the law of the Universal donor, announced that it will ask the Executive that discussed in the Chamber of Deputies the draft supplementing the law on Transplantation and organ donation replace – through an indication – obligation to ratify, before a notary and within a period of six months, no donor condition that four million Chileans declared to the Civil Registry between 2011 and 2013.
The initiative, which is to be seen in the Senate Chamber Wednesday, was thus approved by the Health Commission of the high Chamber, but in the Finance Committee on the same legislative instance was established that those four million donors not declared they must ratify its decision again before the Registrar and in a period of four years.
According to the legislator PPD that resolution overrides the goal of the initiative which urges the Government to replacing the original idea.
Senator Girardi lamented “the death of the minor Joaquín Adasme waiting for a liver transplant that failed due to lack of donor” and explained that “by cases like this in 2010 we did the law of the Universal donor that all Chileans may be donors “, but was established that it could waive that condition manifesting it in the Civil Registry to remove identity card or driver’s license”.
According to Senator “as a question for which they were not prepared, between 2011 and 2013, more than four million people – reflex and without thinking, fear or prejudice – resigned to become donors. “The law was changed and a notarial procedure was established to not be donor: from then until today only 13 thousand people chose to not stand in solidarity”.
According to Senator “this stock of four million non-donor is one of the main causes that the number of transplants has decreased significantly. In Spain there are 50 donors per million people in Chile only seven”.
The parliamentarian added that this situation and “at the request of the Chilean society of Nephrology, that of transplants and people from the world scientific and academic, together to the Senator Felipe Kast (Evopoli) made this draft law so that those who were declared not” donors should ratify that status before a notary and within a period of six months. However the Finance Committee lengthened the term to four years and established that it can be in the registry.”
That is why Senator Girardi said that “we are asking the Executive that when the initiative pass to the Chamber of deputies present an indication to replace the original idea, that this reclassification is made before a notary, and within a period of six months”.
The legislator recalled that “we have more than two thousand people waiting for a transplant, many need a liver – like Joaquin – a heart, a lung and if half of them are not going to die this year. The camera can change this and make sure Chile has a greater number of donors”.

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