This year there have been 24 donations In the General Hospital of the Zone (HGZ) No. 20 “La Margarita” of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Puebla, all cadaveric donations, 48 corneas have been obtained, which has helped to recover the vision of waiting patients of this fabric.
It is because of this, this unit hospitable ranks third, after HGZ No. 1 of the IMSS in Durango and HGR No. 1 of Querétaro, informed the Hospital Coordinator for Organ and Tissue Donation of HGZ No. 20, Dr. Rocío Techalotzi Cano.
He also mentioned that three donations of musculoskeletal tissue, each one of them helps to improve the quality of life of a hundred patients.
In June 2020, the Donation and Transplantation program was reactivated with new biosafety protocols to take care of the health of donors, recipients and staff of the Health.
This process is very important, since there is a waiting list of more than 23 thousand patients to receive an organ and have a longer life expectancy, said the hospital’s Donation coordinator.
At this time, there are approximately 17 thousand patients waiting for a kidney, 5 thousand 672 waiting for a cornea, from liver 304 and heart about 50.
The specialist comments that the age range to be candidate to donate corneas is from 2 to 80 years and in addition, chronic degenerative, hypertensive, diabetic and kidney disease patients are also candidate donors of tissues such as cornea and musculoskeletal.
Techalotzi Cano, reiterates that the success of obtaining so many donations It is the result of the work of the health team made up of managers, doctors treating all services, nursing, social work, quartermaster and orderlies. The work of the medicine interns in social service stands out, they have been the pillar of the Hospital Coordination of Organ and Tissue Donation in the hospital.
Before talking with the family about the issue of donation, they are accompanied during the grieving process, support is provided psychological and moral, work that is carried out by the team that makes up the Hospital Coordination of Organ and Tissue Donation, who are experts in communication in critical situations, thus found, the moment of empathy in which consent to donation is raised, to the family.
The IMSS In Puebla, he invites the population to “Donate life after life”, with this noble action many lives can be saved. You can register as a voluntary donor on the website of the National Transplant Center: https: //www.gob. mx / cenatra or visit the IMSS page at the link: http://www.imss.gob.mx/salud-en-linea/donacion-organos.
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