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The National Institute of Health announced that it would redouble efforts for IPS physicians to remind their patients that they can become corneal donors, an organ that already has a list of Expectation of 2,541 Colombians, mostly children.
Up to 2018, more than a thousand cornea transplants have been performed in Colombia. Pixabay
The National Institute of Health announced that because of the long list of Colombians now waiting for a corneal transplant, a campaign will begin in Health Service Institutions (IPS). ) of the main cities of the country. It was recommended to physicians to inform their patients in a timely manner that they could become corneal donors . The campaign was triggered because, although at the national level, a total of 1,290 cornea transplants were performed. it is from 2018, there are still 2,541 Colombians waiting for a transplant from this body
Many applicants are children and older adults, belonging mostly at strata 1 and 2, INS reported. This is shown by the figures of those who have already received the transplant: out of the total, 252 transplant patients belong to stratum 1, 343 to stratum 2, ie 46% (595) of beneficiaries correspond to strata 1 and 2 "We have a need as a country and we need to make sure that more than 2,000 people needing a cornea to transplant can improve their quality of life, including many children waiting", explains Adriana Segura, Deputy Technical Director of the INS National Network of Donation and Transplantation of Organs and Tissues
The campaign consists of reminding treating physicians throughout the country that the National Registry of Donors is at their disposal, as well as the Attention and accompaniment of the Regulatory Center of Grafts in case, at the end of their life, one of the previously notified patients (or their relatives) agrees to donate from their
"We focus our efforts so that patients who need a cornea can undergo the transplant, the loss of one eye not only represents the badignment of vision, but also of work and the quality of life of a person, "Segura stressed.
In the country, more people decide to donate their organs than those who refuse to do so. According to INS figures, 219,500 Colombians expressed their positive will against 883 who expressed their refusal to do so.
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