10 children have died this year waiting for a kidney transplant. ONTV said that “the death of these children cannot be normalized. Having kidney disease is not an inexorable death sentence.” The Organ Procurement System for Transplants (SPOT) in Venezuela has been paralyzed since June 2017. The Venezuelan Foundation for Donations and Transplants of Organs, Tissues and Cells (Fundavene) made the decision to paralyze organ procurement, arguing that it would be temporary and responding to failures in care centers. Originally the suspension was to last two months.
The National Transplant Organization of Venezuela (ONTV) reported on the morning of this Monday in October the death of the boy Gabriel Sarria, only nine years old and who was a patient in the nephrology service of the Dr. JM de los Ríos children’s hospital, located in Caracas.
The boy was awaiting a kidney transplant. Through the NGO’s Twitter account, collaborators and volunteers expressed their condolences to the relatives and demanded that kidney transplants, paralyzed for five years, be reactivated.
«Each child who leaves leaves in all of us who are in this an emptiness and great impotence (…) Neither his family nor those of us who knew him can accept that a little boy just entering stage V of CKD has died. We understand that they are complicated children due to their pathologies, but with a 100% health system, the chances of succeeding would be multiplied,” ONTV said on Twitter.
The organization also said that “the death of these children cannot be normalized. Having kidney disease is not an inexorable death sentence.”
We cannot express the frustration and impotence that Gabriel’s departure leaves us today, Sunday.
The death of these children cannot be “normalized”. Having kidney disease is not an inexorable death sentence.
1/3 pic.twitter.com/6WgrG3n5Ju— ONTV (@ONTV_VE) October 3, 2022
With the death of Gabriel Sarria, 10 boys and girls who died waiting for a kidney transplant and who belong to the nephrology service of the JM de los Ríos hospital are added. Last September 12 the girl Stephany Muñoz passed awayonly seven years old.
More than 70 children have died since 2017 waiting for kidney transplants in Venezuela. In November 2021, President Nicolás Maduro promised that his administration would work on a plan to speed up these surgical procedures.
The president of the NGO Prepara Familia, Katherine Martínez, has said that only in JM de los Ríos around 120 children and adolescents with different chronic pathologies are hospitalized, among which are patients waiting for an organ transplant.
The Organ Procurement System for Transplants (SPOT) in Venezuela has been paralyzed since June 2017. The Venezuelan Foundation for Donations and Transplants of Organs, Tissues and Cells (Fundavene) made the decision to paralyze organ procurement, arguing that it would be temporary and responding to failures in care centers. Originally the suspension was to last two months.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has extended precautionary measures to protect the rights of children and adolescents confined in the pediatric hospital to 13 services of that health center.
The IACHR considers that the children and adolescents in these services are in a serious and urgent situation of risk of irreparable damage to their rights, for which immediate attention from the Venezuelan State is necessary.
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