NewsWhore
07-27-2012, 04:50 PM
For years, Dr. Ashley Baquero has campaigned to create awareness that all residents in good health should sign authorize donation of their organs. You may have died, but your organs can save another life. Baquero is also president of the Society of Transplants of Latin America and the Caribbean (STALYC). He headed efforts to pass the Dominican Law of Transplants 329-98.
Now, the recent case in which a 22-year old had authorized the transplant enabled the family to donate five organs from the man, including his heart that was used for the second successful heart transplant in the Dominican Republic, evidences the importance of the authorizations. Successful cornea and kidney transplants were also carried out.
The director of the National Institute for the Coordinacion of Transplants (Incort) Fernando Morales Billini said that the future donator needs to let his family know his decision in the case of an unexpected event. Dr. Morales says the doctors will always ask the relatives, but if the person has already expressed his will, the family will be more motivated.
Dr. Morales says that those in good health will receive a donor card once they fill out the donor form available at the Incort web page at www.incort.gob.do
To donate the person must be free of infectious diseases and in good health. The donator needs to die in an intensive care unit, where there is equipment to maintain a constant supply of blood and oxygen, enabling the organs to keep functioning and time for the co-ordination of the donation process.
Dr. Morales says that the organs most needed in the country are the kidney, liver and heart. He says that at present there are 10 persons on the waiting list for a heart, and 40 for kidneys. Dr. Morales says that people need to be aware of the importance of donating organs, "because today it is about me, but tomorrow it could be you."
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organ-donation/FL00077
http://rsta.pucmm.edu.do/biblioteca/bvds/saludley33.htm
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Now, the recent case in which a 22-year old had authorized the transplant enabled the family to donate five organs from the man, including his heart that was used for the second successful heart transplant in the Dominican Republic, evidences the importance of the authorizations. Successful cornea and kidney transplants were also carried out.
The director of the National Institute for the Coordinacion of Transplants (Incort) Fernando Morales Billini said that the future donator needs to let his family know his decision in the case of an unexpected event. Dr. Morales says the doctors will always ask the relatives, but if the person has already expressed his will, the family will be more motivated.
Dr. Morales says that those in good health will receive a donor card once they fill out the donor form available at the Incort web page at www.incort.gob.do
To donate the person must be free of infectious diseases and in good health. The donator needs to die in an intensive care unit, where there is equipment to maintain a constant supply of blood and oxygen, enabling the organs to keep functioning and time for the co-ordination of the donation process.
Dr. Morales says that the organs most needed in the country are the kidney, liver and heart. He says that at present there are 10 persons on the waiting list for a heart, and 40 for kidneys. Dr. Morales says that people need to be aware of the importance of donating organs, "because today it is about me, but tomorrow it could be you."
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organ-donation/FL00077
http://rsta.pucmm.edu.do/biblioteca/bvds/saludley33.htm
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)