Every June 6 of each year marks the World Day of Transplant Patients, a date promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Transplant Organization (ONT).
The objective of this day is to promote a culture of organ donation and give a chance at life to patients waiting for a chance to continue living. Many of these patients are chronic or terminal, and donations and transplants are their last alternative for life.
The national coordinator of Transplantation of the Social Security Fund (CSS), Dr. Ihamir Duarte, referred to this issue, mainly in our country, asserting that there is no significant awareness of organ donation, “we lack a lot of empathy with the issue of donation, it is very difficult to make such an important decision at a time of so much pain due to the loss of a family member”.
He specified that transplant programs are governed by Law 3, which was last revised in 2010. “There it is stated that the way in which you can express your willingness to donate is through your ID or license when He is going to take it out for the first time or renew it, leaving a notarized document, filling out a card at the National Transplant Coordination and putting together a database,” he remarked.
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