ALCER commemorates the National Donor Day and remembers that "donate is love"

JM Corner

Mari Ángeles Andrés León, as spokesperson for ALCER, spoke to the media to show that, like every first Wednesday in June, the association goes out again to celebrate this ‘National Donor Day’ under the slogan ‘All we have a donor gene, activate it. Donating is loving’.

“Mostly, what we want is to honor those people who donate organs and those family members who allow organs to be donated. In addition, we also want to take advantage of this day to raise people’s awareness”, highlighting that although Spain is at the forefront in terms of donations, “unfortunately there are still many people who are waiting to receive the donation of an organ that save life”.

Despite the harsh years of the pandemic, as Mari Ángeles Andrés León explained, during this last year 4,781 organ transplants have been performed on deceased people, and another 324 were performed on living people, which represents a total of 5,105 transplants performed.

Thus, in addition to the 324 transplants carried out from living donors, there were also 2,950 kidney transplants, 1,078 liver transplants, 362 lung transplants, 302 heart transplants, 82 pancreas transplants and 7 intestinal transplants, all of them thanks to deceased donors.

Finally, ALCER insisted that anyone who wants to become a donor should only go to the association, where their data will be taken and a donor card will be made, remembering that it is not only worth someone who wants to become a donor, but also the family agrees on the day you die.

Even today there are more than 4,000 people waiting to receive an organ donation, a figure that increases day by day and for this reason ALCER insisted on the importance of becoming a donor.