The SARS CoV-2 pandemic did not diminish the will and solidarity of Jalisco citizens to donate organs and tissues: In the first seven months of 2021, Jalisco exceeded the donation and transplants of the entire previous year. In 2020, 278 transplant procedures were performed, as of July this year 388 donations were counted.
This was highlighted by the technical secretary of the head of the State Council for Organ and Tissue Transplantation (CETOT), Francisco Monteón Ramos, after noting that despite the health crisis due to COVID-19, Jalisco continues to provide donations to the National Transplant Program, thanks to the design of the health strategy implemented by CETOT in 2020, added to the good medical infrastructure of the state, which has made it possible to reach pre-ndemic figures from the second quarter of 2021.
During the tribute and virtual recognition to donor families, held today that commemorates the State Day for the Donation of Organs and Tissues, the Secretary of Health of Jalisco, Fernando Petersen Aranguren, elaborated in this regard that the entity remains among those that have achieved the most transplants to realize despite the pandemic, also due to the generosity of those who agree to donate.
The head of the Jalisco Health Secretariat (SSJ) explained that the infection by the new coronavirus affected thousands of patients throughout the country who were in the process of transplantation, so CETOT worked to resolve and reactivate the programs as soon as possible. that had to be stopped to comply with federal and World Health Organization safety guidelines.
“Today Jalisco is one of the states with the most progress in this reactivation. Even so, the challenge is enormous. Until the first half of this year, there were 5,518 patients on the waiting list for an organ, of which 4,572 correspond to the kidney, 896 to the cornea, 47 to the liver and three others ”, pointed out Petersen Aranguren.
When taking the floor, Laura Lambarren Verdín, mother of a young donor, highlighted that donating her daughter’s organs and tissues allowed her to “embrace joy and pain, because they are not antonyms. The joy of sharing 27 years three days with a beautiful girl, and the pain of saying goodbye ”. He stressed that the act of donating is about giving life through a kidney or a liver.
For her part, Priscila Macías Amezcua, 33 years old and twelve years old after having been transplanted, thanked the families of the donors for the decision to give life through her deceased relative. “Receiving an organ is not a celebration, it is honoring the lives of the people who have donated.”
STATE DAY
On August 4 of each year, Jalisco celebrates the State Day of Organ and Tissue Donation, commemorating the first transplant performed in the state. This 2020, under the slogan “Gratitude above all, in the context of the pandemic”, a tribute was held, delivering nine recognitions to families of deceased people, benefactors who donated organs and tissues of their loved ones during 2020.
In 2020 a total of 24 families decided to donate organs and tissues of a deceased relative, as of June of this year 22 families have given the opportunity of life through the donation of an organ or tissue.
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