"Justina lights us", by Alfredo Leuco

February 27, 2019

New editorial of Alfredo Leuco for "I give my word"

Today, the information is on the cover of Clarín. And this is not for less. The first quarter of this year has collected the history of donations of organs. The data is very encouraging. In two months, and thanks to 130 donors, 261 organ transplants and 221 corneas were performed.

INCUCAI's manager, Alberto Maceira, told the newspaper that it was "something wonderful". Today is World Transplant Day and on the front of Casa Rosada, a gigantography with Justina's face in her tribute has been suspended. For this reason, I do not get tired of repeating this column that confirms that every day there is good news.

Or as in this case, an extraordinary news. The Chamber of Deputies has rarely been flooded with emotion and unanimity. As in the Senate, all legislators pbaded a law that brought about a historic change as it provided that all persons over the age of 18 would be organ donors, unless otherwise indicated in life.

This is good news. There are 7,581 people on the waiting list of an organ for the transplant. The consent of the family is no longer necessary and it is an immense progress. Many deputies could not hold back their tears when Pablo Kosiner of Salta showed the picture of his son Juan Pablo, who died at the age of 16, because the organ he needed did not fit. Had not happened.

We had to see the whole family of Justina Lo Cane, her parents, her brothers and sisters, her grandparents, hug her and kiss Justina. Her mother, Paola, confessed her deepest feelings: "With this law, we turn pain into joy.

Of course, we will never overcome the anxiety of his absence. But I know that now Justina is hugging me and she says, Mom, I did it. Mamita darling, we did it. "It's the end of a story that moved all Argentines.

Justina was admitted to the Favaloro Foundation. I was the first on the Incucai list because I had an urgent need of heart. Justina had the smile and mischievous look of all 12-year-old girls.

Conbad heart disease complicated his life and eventually led to his death. They discovered it a year and a half ago and since then they have been testing it with careful attention and appropriate medications. But his wounded ventricle says enough.

That's why the transplant was so urgent. She showed her strength and courage that underpinned her family. My heart was punctured but I had a heart so big. Solidarity and kindness. I always like to say that the only people with disabilities who exist are those who do not have a heart.

When his father, Ezequiel Lo Cane, explained what was happening to Justina, he did not think about it. He thought of others. With his little angel face, he looked at him and said, "Dad, help everyone we can." It was difficult for everyone not to cry such a generous benefit.

"Daddy, help everyone we can," has become the driving force behind an extraordinary campaign to encourage organ donation. This was called "Multiplies life by seven". It is that when you die and you give your organs, you can extend the life to seven people.

And sometimes at 9 or 10 o'clock because there are tissues that can also be implanted in another human being and help him get away from the abyss. Justina has been visited by her youngest brothers, Ceferino (9 years old) and Cipriano (7 years old). And they talked about things in life, boys. Music, school, compañeras who sent him cartoons.

One of the concentric and multicolored hearts he had stuck in his room was a secular prayer: "Multiply life by seven." That goal was the engine that moved everything. Meanwhile, Justina was waiting for hers.

But that did not happen. Today, Justina is enlightening us because it is a donation flag. The best law we can get is named after him. As if he was a Cid Campeador, the gentle Justina won the battle even after his death.

Giving organs, it's like planting a thousand hopes each day. It is the maximum possible solidarity. It is the generosity of solidarity that spreads in fertile lands. It is a form of procreation available to the human being as a human being.

How many brothers can we save? How many compatriots can receive such a blessing? Have you ever asked him? Is there another superior way of delivering and serving others?

It's being solidarity with our own body even after death. Give it up to hurt, Mother Teresa asked. It's like gaining some life at death, like winning battles.

People often withdraw because of mistrust. I understand it but I do not justify it. We have suffered so much disappointment and disappointment from the institutions that everything is arousing suspicion.

But in the case of a donation of organs, you have to trust. Never, never, has there been a single case in which something uncertain or conflict with ethics has occurred. There are so many urban legends that are the product of ignorance that it is worth repeating them a thousand times.

No act of corruption or embezzlement, let alone traffic related to organ transplants, is registered. These invented stories hurt us a lot as a society. Everyone, because we can all be donors and we all need to donate an organ. You never know your destiny.

He never knows which side of the transplant he can be. He acts in self-defense. I remind you that the evaluation of the INCUCAI doctors is very rigorous to confirm the death. The law requires two doctors, a therapist and a neurologist to sign the death certificate. And two separate tests are performed for six hours.

More awareness campaigns for society and training of doctors are needed. I repeat: there are currently 7,581 people on the waiting list. These are not pay numbers.

They are children, parents, brothers, friends, lovers, dreamers, as Argentinian as we are, and they are waiting on the list and despair in their anguish. The progress of medicine in leaps and bounds is becoming more and more frequent and fruitful in Argentina, but in this blessed country, donors are failing.

We have improved, but it is still missing. Journalists, teachers, religious, politicians, artists, sportsmen and all those who have a microphone, a forum or a forum to disseminate information and thoughts have a social responsibility, an obligation moral to raise hope, encourage donation, multiply solidarity to make a constant propaganda of the values ​​that unite us more and make us better people and better Argentineans. There is none else.

A new country will only have better bases with better citizens. There were campaigns of all colors. One who said: write a book, plant a tree, have a child and give an organ. It is necessary to enlighten the life of the donors with the possibility of giving birth without being father or mother.

Give birth to another human being without giving birth but giving life. It seems wonderful. It's an epic that saves the lives of our neighbors. Is there anything superior to this? Giving organs Giving life even after death, it is to honor life. It is multiplied by seven. And Justina carried this flag the victory. Today is the title of the cover of Clarín.

Justina was able to realize her dreams, to realize the maximum of solidarity possible. At the moment, there is exactly one donor in the street. What beats in the homeland is other than our multiplied heart. By fighting death, we honor life.

Who said that everything is lost / I come to offer my heart. By fighting death, we honor life. Our great Eladia who is in heaven has said with all the light:
That of sustainability and pbadage does not give us the right to presume, because living is not the same as honoring life …

"From Elia, homeland or death", by Alfredo Leuco