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IMSS Increases Organ Transplants
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January 23, 2010
Mexico City - Organ transplants at public hospitals rose by 12.4 percent last year, officials said this week.
José Alfonso Yamamoto Nagano, director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security's (IMSS) Organ, Tissue and Cell Donation and Transplant Unit, said that 1,750 organ transplants were conducted last year. That's 4.6 donations for every 1 million eligible to receive IMSS care, slightly higher than the 3.1 per 1 million, a figure that includes all public and private hospitals.
Kidney transplants accounted for most of the operations, with 1,170, a 5 percent growth compared to 2008. Liver transplants increased by 16 percent, to 460, while 78 bone marrow transplants and seven heart transplants were performed.
In the past 25 years, IMMS hospitals have done 12,550 kidney procedures, 50 percent of which have occurred during the past five years.
“That's why IMSS is positioned as the health institution to carry out more operations of this type in the country,” Yamamoto said.
In order to increase the number of donors, IMSS plans to expand the Institutional Network of Organ and Tissue Hospitals with the incorporation fo 20 specialized units.
Currently, 47 hospitals that perform these types of operations are affiliated with IMSS.
IMSS will also strengthen its Transplant Program within the institution itself, with goals to increase the number of kidney transplants to 1,500, or 30 percent, and expand the number of donations to 5.5 per 1 million.
Spain leads the world with the number of organ transplants, with 34 deceased donors per 1 million, according to the International Registry of Organ Donation and Transplantation (IAOD).
Countries such as Spain, Belgium and Norway have “presumed consent” laws, in which citizens are automatically considered to be an organ donor upon death unless they indicate otherwise.
In 1989, Spain began a national program to coordinate doctors and transplant coordinators to find potential donors.
This model has even been recognized as the World Health Organization (WHO) as a measure that produces true results.
Mexico's Federal Commission for the Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris) recognizes more than 440 hospitals and clinics that can participate in the organ donation process |
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