Fundación Cuestión de Vivir Raises Awareness About the Importance of Organ Donation at San Martín and Atlético Match

The Fundación Cuestión de Vivir aims to raise awareness among the population about the importance of organ donation. His founder, Federico Antenucci, received a liver transplant and his desire is to give something back to society with this type of gesture. In this case, the recipients were the fans of San Martín and Atlético, who witnessed this campaign at halftime, with a flag, touring the court with the Antenucci family, and organ donors and recipients. He did so accompanied by a delegation from the Ministry of Health of Tucumán, with Luis Medina Ruiz to the head.

“We have decided to accompany, from the Ministry of Health, and We did that last night on the San Martín field and two weeks ago on the Atlético field. We want to especially thank the managers, both the president and the vice president of Atlético and San Martín, who received us in an excellent manner, gave us a very comfortable place to watch the game and then allowed us to be on the field, the truth is that The solidarity that our people have is impressive, in this case the directors of San Martín and Atlético, and the reception of the public, that when we walked the field, there was applause and good songs of victory towards this gesture”, he remarked.

Antenucci, for his part, highlighted the importance of the campaign and the presence of the health authorities: “Our main objective currently is to inform about the importance of organ donation in the Tucuman population, so that those patients on the waiting list are as few as possible. The fact of having the presence and support of the Ministry of Health and the minister, Dr. Luis Medina Ruiz, in our last event fills us with pride, since it shows accompaniment and empathy, so necessary in transplant patients and in those who are on the waiting list”.

Regarding the call, the president of the foundation said that, in addition to the minister, the Transplant unit participated in it, through Dr. Santiago Villavicencio and his entire team, as well as relatives of donors who were with their children: “It is very It was gratifying to be able to celebrate my third year as a transplant recipient seeing the smiles of those children who went through a difficult time and the joy they displayed”.

The person in charge of the event also explained that a boy who is a marrow donor and whose recipient was a 10-year-old boy in Italy was present at the event: “That is the important thing about all this, that Argentina shares a world bank of bone marrow donors and that there are also recipients from Argentina who received donations from other countries.“.