The transplantation. Barberini (Umbria) announces an agreement with Regione Marche

The convention will cover liver and kidney transplants. The goal is to make the roads "faster, safer and better". "We chose the Marches because, at the University Hospital of Ancona, there is a center of high quality transplants," says the counselor. Nanni Costa (Cnt): "An important choice in a vision of solidarity, which does not generate trips of hope but offers high quality services".

05 JUL – "We will soon sign an agreement with the Marche Region to Umbrian citizens awaiting liver and kidney transplants, quicker, more reliable and quality diagnostic and badistance routes, thanks to an exchange of expertise with the Ancona transplant center which is a national reference ". Luca Barberini, speaking this morning in Spoleto at the National Congress on Liver Transplants, organized by the complex structure of the hepatology and gastroenterology of the hospital. of Terni and the hepatology SSD of Umbria US 2.

"Umbria – explained Barberini – by the size and therefore the number of potential users does not have its own center for the liver transplants, so we sought the collaboration of neighboring regions to give quality answers and simplify the lives of patients.We chose the Marches because, at the University Hospital of Ancona, he there is a very high quality transplant center, with which our health centers and our Regional Transplantation Center have already established very fruitful relationships. "

" With regard to liver transplants – continued the commissioner – the agreement provides for the registration of patients residing in Umbria on the waiting lists of the Marche region and the use, preferably, organs from donors our The collaboration of the Policlinic o di Milano, which will allow Umbrian donors to distribute organs, is also planned, ensuring our region a fair balance between organs transferred and transplant patients. Medical and nursing staff involved in the donation-transplant process will also have the opportunity to take refresher courses at the Marches Region Reference Center. A similar possibility is open for kidney transplants, using the Ancona hospital as the second choice after that of Perugia, which represents an active and consolidated center. "

Alessandro Nanni Costa, director, also spoke at the initiative of the National Center for Transplantation, which speaks of a" very innovative and valuable agreement for a region that does not have the same ". not have its own transplant center and that would have risked being penalized without its own waiting list, nationwide, for the donation of organs. "It is an important choice – he stressed – in a vision of solidarity, which does not generate a path of hope but offers quality services, recognizing the equal dignity of patients and the fundamental role of health workers in both regions. The interesting thing is also the fact that the Umbrian patients managed in Ancona will be followed in Umbria, before and after the transplantation, through agreed protocols. "

Barberini also pointed out that" this agreement is part of the path of a long-standing collaboration with neighboring regions to provide more effective responses to the health needs of citizens, overcome institutional boundaries, grant priority to the needs of patients and the resources and skills of the system. This includes the agreement already signed with the Marches for helicopter rescue and the unique emergency center and the agreement with Tuscany and the Marche for the transport of organs, patients and patients. Medical teams for organ harvesting and transplantation. "

The counselor finally gave an update on the question of donations of organs: " Umbria is very committed to promoting the culture of giving, through a series of projects such as that's a common choice & # 39; , which allows citizens to make a declaration of intent on the donation of organs and tissues, at the time of issuance or renewal of the identity card. The initiative directly involved municipalities in the region, with 76 active realities out of 92 and so far have been collected about 40,000 positive adhesions. "

05 July 2018
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