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Malaga's Regional Hospital carried out 157 organ transplants in 2020
Ángel Escalera
donors. The 157 operations are 43 fewer than the 200 carried out in 2019 and 89 fewer than 2018. The Regional Hospital is part of the Malaga Transplant Sector, which is also made up of the Virgen de la Victoria (Clínico), Antequera, Axarquía, ... Torrecárdenas (Almeria), Poniente (Almeria), Ceuta and Melilla hospitals. The Regional was the Andalusian hospital that performed the most kidney transplants last year: 106, of which eight were from living donors. Likewise, 83 corneas were implanted thanks ... to 53 donors, which represents 50 per cent of all operations of that kind in Andalucía. The coordinator of the Malaga Transplant Sector, Domingo Daga, applauded the efforts of the professionals who, despite having to deal with exceptional