Five years after the enactment of Law 27,447 on Organ, Tissue and Cell Transplantation, better known as the “Justina Law”, the rate of interruptions in donation processes due to family opposition, which previously stood at around 40% nationwide it was reduced to 10%, a decrease considered one of the “most immediate and notable impacts” of the regulations, said the president of Incucai, Carlos Soratti.
Law 27,447, unanimously sanctioned on July 4, 2018, abolished the requirement for family certification that the deceased person had not expressed a “last will” in which he was opposed to the donation.
As a balance, the president of the National Central Single Coordinating Institute for Ablation and Implantation (Incucai) highlighted the main achievements of the law, which allowed a comprehensive reform and analyzed the challenges to reduce waiting times in transplant processes.
“Abolishing the requirement for family certification led to a significant increase in the number of donors in Argentina and reduction in interruptions due to family opposition, as it was called then,” said the doctor specializing in Intensive Care.
In this sense, Soratti explained that before the law was enacted, “the causes of interruption of donation processes that were attributed to family opposition were between 30 and 40% as a national average.”
“Today they hardly reach 10%. There was a very important decrease. That was one of the most immediate and notable impacts of this modification of the law”, the official remarked.
The norm was prepared by Incucai together with the impulse of the family of Justina Lo Cane, the 12-year-old girl who died in November 2017 while waiting for a heart to be transplanted.
Among the main changes, the law makes presumed consent effective, which means that all people over the age of 18 are considered donors, except those who expressly state otherwise.
The affirmative or negative will towards the donation can be expressed through the Mi Argentina app, signing an act of expression in the Incucai or in the provincial ablation and implant agencies; requesting that it be recorded in the DNI; or by sending a free telegram through the Argentine Post Office.
2023-07-04 03:16:51
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