Myths and Realities of transplants
The donation of organs for transplant purposes is not so simple. Due to loopholes are still present in Mexico only the opinion of a third against the bodies that have an individual to death for giving up on efforts to save the lives of others.
Most of the population is unaware that every individual willing to give their organs is a valuable source of life, since it can provide eight organs and tissues that are being lost daily as well as the hopes of patients with sometimes several years in waiting list.
Another reason for not extending the donation is a chance that the bodies could be recovered from potential donors who, for any misfortune occur unexpectedly any institution the channel to the receivers in a fast and efficient.
Only in the state of Puebla each week are being lost between eight and ten potential donors, which means they are leaving every month to take advantage of 256 bodies that he could save the lives of as many individuals, men, women and children, or substantially improve their quality of life.
To have an idea of the dimensions of the problem, dear reader, should know that the current demand in the health system poblano is about 360 patients who did not hesitate for a moment, get up every day with the will receiving the news they have waited for a long time.
According to data of the State of Transplantation (Coetra) only 70% of candidates for an operation of this kind requires a kidney (225 candidates) while the rest need other vital corneas (122) or liver (four ).
But back to the beginning, the fundamental question. If I want to donate my organs or tissues at death my family might decide otherwise?
The answer is yes. And on countless occasions that our relatives, even close ones, we ignore that at some point the decision in that regard. The donation is then further complicated if there is any document that guarantees the fulfillment of that purpose.
To deal with this inconvenience the State Transplant Council agreed with the judiciary boost donation is “action for which the donor is willing to a notary public through the development of a certified.
And that now, certainly there is a promotional card donation by writing to point out that the desire to be donors and encouraging the spread of culture in this, but after all this is not a legal instrument.
What can I donate?
If a person dies by cardio-respiratory arrest, the tissues available for a potential recipient will be bone, skin, corneas, tendons, cartilage and blood vessels. In the case of death by brain death, then the organs are useful in addition to previous structures, heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas.
One of the main circumstances so they can take the appropriate agencies is the opportunity with which they are recovered. The optimal time for the conservation of these is 24 to 48 hours, provided they have not been at risk of infection.
Who can not donate?
The General Health Law establishes in Articles 326 and 332 that minors can not be living donors of organs, except for bone marrow transplantation, where it is necessary for the consent of parents or legal representatives.
Nor can do mental disability and other individuals subject to interdiction, nor life, nor after his death. Pregnant women are allowed only if the recipient is in danger of death, without this implying a risk to mother or child.
Are also discarded those with HIV / AIDS or those who have suffered some type of cancer, unless they were primary tumors of the brain or skin.
To donate organs in living condition is that the person is of age and are full of sound mind, that the function of the organ that is removed must be offset by the donor’s body sufficiently and to verify its compatibility with the receiver.
Among people living with kinship by consanguinity, affinity or civil, the donor’s consent must be expressed before a Notary Public in this mode can be revoked at any time prior to transplantation. In addition, the Transplant Committee of the hospital where they are to perform the surgery will have to issue a favorable resolution.
The General Health Act is timely as to the nature of altruistic organ donation, so anyone giving or receiving a benefit for profit are committing a crime.
Moreover, there is no certainty that the country is the illegal trafficking of organs since the time of collection from a donor, through the conservation and then carrying out the transplant, a high management which specializes in complex professional teams.
Puebla in the culture of donating organs begin to take steps to reaching the conclusion of agreements between authorities and civil organizations, such as that recently achieved with the help of 066. Through this agreement, the paramedic service to assist people to identify potential donors that arise from accidents occurring in the territory poblano.
Due to available statistics, we know that every week there were up to a dozen potential donors could not be channeled to the evaluation procedures for transplantation, because there was no coordination between the institutions involved.
This meant that the waste-so-plain some 256 bodies, if the matter goes to the 300 listed patients while receiving palliative treatments.
Another step in the promotion to donate organs and tissues was the agreement to take part in the 1500 members of the Rotary Club chapter in Industrial Puebla, Tlaxcala. Hidalgo and Morelos. Thereafter, employers want to formalize, by notarial act, their donors.
The project is underway in this capital to quickly meet the completion of the first heart transplant, once the State Transplant Council (Coetra) reported that it obtained approval from the respective protocol, and refine the details regarding the hospital in which they will practice the operation.