In May, the record for donating organs in Argentina was reached

Last month of May the record was reached in the organ donation process in Argentina, with 89 interventions completed, which allowed 183 patients on the waiting list to receive a transplant, reported Incucai today.

In total, 105 liver transplants, 46 hepatic, 13 cardiac, 9 pancreatic, 6 pulmonary, 2 hepatorenal and 2 pancreatic, the body highlighted.

The operational donations were made: Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Tucumán, Mendoza, Entre Rios, Misiones, Neuquén, San Juan, Jujuy, Formosa, Tierra del Fuego, Santiago del Estero, Corrientes, Rio Negro, Chubut, Catamarca and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

These 89 processes completed in the last month they exceed the previous markreached in August of last year after the entry into force of the Act 27,447 on the Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells, explained the Incucai.

According to the figures of the agency for the first five months of 2019 370 organ donation processes were performed this allowed 766 patients on the waiting list to receive a transplant, that is 206 more transplants than those performed during the same period in 2018.

Currently 7,452 people are waiting for an organ transplant and 2,440 one of the corneas.

The INCUCAI He reminded that people wishing to express their willingness to donate can do so by registering on the My Argentina website, at the Civil Status at the time of the processing of the DNI, by sending a free telegram by the Argentine post or by signing an act of will. in Incucai or provincial agencies.