{"id":5116,"date":"2021-12-09T00:22:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2021-12-09T23:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:22:36","slug":"a-model-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/a-model-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A model for life"},"content":{"rendered":"

With 48.3 organ donors per million population in 2018, Spain is very near to reaching the goal of 50 donors per million, along with the aim of performing 5,500 transplants per year by 2022. This is double the average for the European Union and higher than the United States (32.8). These figures are testament to the success of a system that was first developed 30 years ago, when the country barely had 15 donors per million population.<\/p>\n

The WHO estimates that 5-10% of transplants involve illegal organ trafficking: in order to combat this trade, Spain has successfully submitted a number of resolutions for approval by the United Nations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations and the Council of Europe all promote the adoption of the Spanish model in other countries as an alternative to organ trafficking and \u201ctransplant tourism\u201d. (In Spain, only Spanish citizens or legally resident foreigners can receive transplants.) Within the European Union, the model has been implemented \u2013either fully or partially\u2013 in Croatia, Italy, France, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria; while in the rest of the world, countries such as Australia and Canada have incorporated elements of the system. Additionally, for the last 15 years Spain has operated a training and advisory network in Latin America, where both donation and transplantation rates have increased in every country.<\/p>\n

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Since 2006, Spain has worked with the WHO to manage the International Registry of Organ Donation and Transplantation, according to which around two million people per year require a transplant, although just 145,000 are performed. \/ PHOTO_HOSPITAL CL\u00cdNIC BARNA (A. CREUS y \u00c1. GARC\u00cdA)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Spanish model began to take shape in 1989, with the passing of a law based on the principles of complete anonymity and altruism on the part of the donor and their family, full respect for their wishes, and absolute equality in the distribution of available organs to transplant patients, in accordance with medical criteria. Additionally, so-called \u201cencephalic death\u201d was declared the scientific, legal and ethical equivalent of \u201ctraditional\u201d death. Encephalic death also has to be diagnosed by a separate medical team that is not involved with the transplantation.<\/p>\n