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Spain - The World Leader in Organ Donations
Holding a job became impossible and vacations were limited to places with a hospital nearby where she could have her blood pumped through the machine to remove the harmful wastes that her kidneys could no longer handle.
"It changes your life. It is like being born again," the 62-year-old said of the kidney transplant operation she underwent in 1997.
"You can't imagine the gratitude that I feel. I think about it every day and I am always moved. Sometimes I caress the spot where my kidney is, I really feel thankful to the family, to the kid who died," she added, her voice choked with emotion.
Perez is one of the beneficiaries of a network of transplant coordinators that began in 1989 and is now present in all 168 hospitals in Spain, helping make the country the world leader in organ donations.
The system, depicted in the Oscar-winning movie "All About My Mother" by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, identifies potential donors by closely monitoring emergency wards. When they learn of a death, the coordinators tactfully talk to the grieving families to get permission to harvest organs and help save the lives of others.
The number of deceased donors per million people, a commonly used benchmark, has increased in Spain from 14 in 1989 when the system was put in place to 34.2 last year, the highest rate in the world, according to the health ministry and the International Registry of Organ Donation and Transplantation.
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The system, depicted in the Oscar-winning movie "All About My Mother" by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, identifies potential donors by closely monitoring emergency wards. When they learn of a death, the coordinators tactfully talk to the grieving families to get permission to harvest organs and help save the lives of others. This is wrong the movie did not depict this system and has nothing to do with transpant coordinators. Your news affiliate AFP should be more careful in future. |
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Maybe you should see All About My Mother once again to refresh your memory. And hey, get your kids to sleep and have a hanky at hand to watch the movie on DVD. It's really weepy in case you've forgotten. Better still, a bath towel!