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ÁNGEL ESCALERA
Blood can't be made; it can only be obtained through donations. This is why the regional centre for blood transfusions (CRTS) has launched an appeal for donations to guarantee supplies for hospitals in the province of Malaga, both private and public,
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Ángel Escalera
...were increasing. So we drew up a national strategy, aiming for a target of 40 donors per one million of the population by 2020. We are now working on reaching 50 per million in 2022. -What are your strategies? -One which is very important is ... collaboration with the emergency services, because they now play an essential role in the donation process. Nearly 25 per cent of donors in Spain are identified in the emergency departments. The second pillar in our strategy has been a progressive change in the ... profile of potential organ donors. There are older people, in their sixties, seventies or eighties, who die from natural causes. Their organs are being transplanted with very good results. The third line is donation in asystole, which is from people who
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Ángel Escalera
Blood supplies at the Regional Blood Transfusion Centre (CRTS) were below minimum levels earlier this week which caused health professionals to send out an urgent appeal for donors to come forward. As usual the appeal touched the solidarity of the ... earlier in August. Plus, our regular donors are away on holiday, there is a massive influx of tourists, many operating theatres [which often close in August] have stayed open, and units such as Oncology and Intensive Care still require blood. All these ... factors have led to the sums not adding up. The appeal has gone out to donors from all type of blood groups. Whenever we make an appeal, we make sure that blood donors come from all different types of groups, especially from groups O and A, which are
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Ángel Escalera
The Regional Blood Transfusion Centre is calling for people from all blood groups to donate after reserves of blood fell below their minimum levels. They are particularly interested in donors from the O+ and O- blood types. Isidro Prat, director
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ÁNGEL ESCALERA
Pablo Ráez's message is still having an effect and the number of new bone marrow donors who registered in Malaga province last year was 300 per cent higher than expected. Pablo, a young man from Marbella who died of leukaemia in February last ... year, inspired numerous people to join his campaign for bone marrow donors, and his story went viral on social media. Andalucía now has more bone marrow donors than any other region of Spain, says Isidro Prat, the director of the Regional Blood ... Transfusion Centre (CRTS), which registers and manages these donations in Andalucía. By the end of November last year, 19,079 people in the region had registered as donors, and the number had risen to over 20,000 by the end of the year. In Malaga there were
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JUAN SOTO
...which will entail a stay in hospital. His campaign to encourage people to become bone marrow donors, with a much more altruistic objective than obtaining a cure for himself, resulted in the donor banks expanding by 1,300 per cent in Malaga province ... and many people like Nereida, Patricia, Miguel, Miriam, Pablo, Lidia, Sonia, Lorena and Mariem (who feature in this article) registered as donors and decided to continue Pablo's legacy. Pablo Ráez's legacy will live on in a documentary which will ... province and then around the world through barely a handful of posts on Twitter, only 200 people a month were registering as donors. That figure rose to 2,000 and in 2016 the province registered a record 11,201 new bone marrow donors, which was an increase
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
...is kept for the Bone Marrow Donors Register (REDMO) which was created by the Fundación Josep Carreras in conjunction with the world donor bank. Only half of the parametres necessary to check compatibility with a possible recipient are checked in that ... doesn't suffer from any illnesses. It took his body time to recover. "My friends and family would ring me to ask how I was and I used to burst into tears. It's hard emotionally, but in the end it is worth it," he says. In Spain donors and receivers are ... couple of tears. I decided I was going to go ahead with the donation, no matter what," he says. The donors can change their mind at any point of the process, but "you know that once the recipient is in the operating theatre to be given your bone
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I. IBÁÑEZ
“The first transgenic transplants of pig hearts in humans will take place in 1996,” the newspapers of the 90s used to say, but the 'mad cow' crisis and the spread of Aids put a stop to the idea of xenotransplants for fear that humans could be contami
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SUR
...scientific community. Everybody knows that sometimes, when you are nervous, you get diarrhoea," she says. FMT is a simple, cheap and almost artisan procedure. It costs less than 100 euros to perform. "Beforehand, we talk to possible donors such as children ... multi-resistant to antibiotics," warns Rosa del Campo. Although it is obligatory to check the absence of this type of micro-organism in donors, it seems that not everybody does so. The omnipresence of processed foods in our diet is decimating the diversity
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FERMÍN APEZTEGUIA
...the high cost but because it would be impossible to find compatible donors for every patient in the world. So what has changed? Something as simple as the fact that it was not as difficult as it seemed. The London patient's Aids virus was removed