“The Importance of Organ Donation: Encouraging Awareness and Recognizing its Benefits”

Organ donation is an act from which many people and families can be favored to seek a second chance at life. Approximately 55 patients can be benefited when at a certain moment a person dies, and their family decides to donate organs that are in good condition and can be functional for someone else.

Encourage and promote the teaching of donating, is an informative work that allows to break myths that exist around this topic, the fear of people when performing this act of kindness, limits people from deciding to donate.

The Colombian Association of Transplanted Athletes, precisely seeks to make visible and recognize the abilities of people who benefit from a transplant, thus improving their quality of life through physical activity and sport.

On April 3, the doctor Alejandra Martín Pinto, founder of the Colombian Association of Transplanted Athletes, was talking about organ donation. Julio Sanin, surgeon and Medical Director of Synlab Colombia, also accompanied us, talking about the medical check-ups that women should have.

Listen to the full program here.