{"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