Vatican arranged two lectures (2005 & 2006), to analyze subjects about the end of life, without changing its general position to accept medical statement of brain death...
Thus emphasizes Dr. Uribe, Head of Liver Transplant Program al Hospital Calvo Mackenna, the reason to fill the application of “MSF” and travel to Liberia, Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world and living there for 3 months...
Near of 5.000 chilena people registered as a donor through the aplication form founded at www.trasplante.cl, during 2006. 72% of them are women and the months with mayor registered were November and September
CAMPAIGN FONASA – CORPORACIÓN 2006
Like previous years, again the Fonasa, altogether with Corporación del Trasplante, organized a Campaign of promotion of the donation of organs to make it during the ...
This year 2006 became a special period. We have obtained an historical number as far as effective donors and transplants done it, surpassing for the first time in history, 150 actual donors (152 in 2006).
Comparative
picture since 2001, as actual
donors as transplants done, just
considering those with cadaveric
donor. Then rates are expressed
in million per inhabitants (pmp),
and were taken based in a global
of 15 million of inhabitants in
Chile, according with the information
of INE ( Statistic National Institute)
2002.
According to internationals
numbers, the actual donor rates
must be settled in over 18-
20 donor pmp. For that reason,
solid organ transplant rates,
in relation with the size of
our population, and with the
pathologies existed, must grow
between 4 to 10 times each one
to really cover the necessities.
Item
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Actual
Donor
8.4
7.7
9
8.9
8.2
10
Kidney
Txs.
15.5
14
16.8
15.6
14.8
17.4
Liver
Txs.
2.5
3.2
4.0
4.5
3.9
5.7
Heart
Txs.
0.7
1.1
0.9
1.4
1
1.3
Lung Txs.
0.6
0.4
0.7
0.4
0.3
0.5
Pancreas
Txs.
0.2
-
-
0.06
0.1
0.07
Intestine
Txs.
0.06
Note
: All the transplant considered
are referred to cadaveric donor
exclusively.
Testimonies
Soledad Garrido S.
It has come the time to resume the bitter and sweet of my last two years. It is hard to go back again to those moments without deep feelings and thanked to that extraordinary family who gave me a new heart to keep on living.
My name is Oscar Adrian Maturana Maturana, I am 59 years of old, I am double lung transplanted, and actually I live happy with my wife Nedda, my family and friends, in despite have been at the limit of death during several months...
(* = Double transplant of kidney/páncreas, kidney/liver, and heart/liver)
There are more than 1.000 patients in waiting list for tissues, such as bones
Latin American Reality
When Chile presents
its national reality, there comes always one
question: What happened in the other countries
of our Latin America? How goes this matter
in our neighborhoods?.
Facing the reality of latin american context,
we can point Chile position’s is at
5th place at the ten top of the list; behind
Argentina, Cuba, Puerto Rico ( date of 2004),
and Uruguay, top of the list with 20,6 donors
rate per million of inhabitants per year with
a 19% of family refusal. The less family refusal
is in Cuba (5.1%). Sadly, we do not know the
results in this aspect ( family refusal) from
the other countries, so is too complex to
draw conclusions.
In top, we present Latin
American map with its dates. We have omitted
some countries with no Transplant Programs
or with no information to Latin American Organization,
to see more details :www.gpuntacana.org
