translated from Spanish: 368 organ transplants are celebrated so far in 2019

The Ministry of Health (Minsal) reported that a total of 368 organ transplants have been performed in the country so far in 2019, becoming the best year in the field of procurement. The number of transplants performed in the country exceeds 2017, which until then had been considered the best year in the field of transplants. The figures were released by health authorities as part of the “Donor Forest” activity, where families remember those who donated life, planting a tree. The activity at Cerro Blanco de Recoleta was organized by the Andrés Leighton Finlay Family Donor Foundation.On the occasion, the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, highlighted the figure of 368 transplants performed to date, locating so far to 2019 as the best year in organ procurement.” Our feeling today is contradictory, because some of you have lost your relatives recently and we accompany you in that pain, but on the other hand, there are people who were able to live thanks to that donation, and what is happening in our country is almost Miraculous. In the same vein, Juan Eduardo Sánchez, national coordinator of Minsal Organ and Tissue Transplantation, commented that this year have also increased heart, lung and liver transplants.” As long as we have greater access to organs and tissues from donors that are respected in their right, we will have a therapeutic alternative that will save others who will be free from a condition of organic failure,” he said Sánchez.Al respect, the Minister of Health ruled that “we need to decentralize and that is why we are working hard so that by the end of next year, the Temuco Concepción de Procuratomiento and Multiorganic Transplant axis is a reality and we have already done the antofagasta, to generate a second Multi-Organic Center to make it easier for the desire to be donors to be fully respected.”

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