“Our transplant system is at the forefront for the quality of the services provided and for the capacity for care and assistance, and is already projected towards the main technological and organizational challenges that are redesigning healthcare systems around the world. Our task is to accompany the introduction of these innovations for the benefit of patients”. This was said by the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, on the occasion of National Organ and Tissue Donation Day.
“And yet – continued the Minister – without the Yes to donation, even the most technologically advanced system would not be able to proceed with the transplant. And again: without that Yes, the efforts of our doctors, nurses and healthcare workers (to whom I renew my thanks) they would be in vain. Donating is a natural choice, a gesture that can make the difference for those who are waiting for a transplant today. When we renew the identity card, let’s make a lifestyle choice and say Yes to donation“.
At this time approximately 6 thousand patients they are waiting for a new one renejust under a thousand a liver, approximately 700 and Heartbeyond 200 and lung and as many ones pancreas. Although last year the number of organ donations exceeded 2 thousand for the first time, allowing the realization of almost 4,500 transplants (over 15% more than in 2022), the number of organs that become available is not yet sufficient to ensure transplants for all patients who need them.
This is also why the Ministry of Health and the National Transplant Center (CNT) have launched an important initiative in recent days: by April new information systems (roll-up) will be sent to around 900 registry offices in the 500 most populous municipalities in Italy. , posters and handbills) thanks to which citizens waiting to renew their identity document will be able to receive verified and correct information on the donation, in order to make an informed choice when their turn comes at the counter. The initiative will continue in the following months and by the end of the year there will be 1,500 registered offices and over 1,100 municipalities reached, with a territorial coverage of almost 40 million resident citizens.
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