Transplant operations up in Malaga province

Across Malaga province, a total of 215 kidney transplants were carried out in 2022 thanks to 120 donors from all the public health centres in the province. Also, 107 tissue donations were given from these donors and their families.

Of the 156 kidney transplants performed at the Regional Hospital eight came from living donors. The medical centre was also third in Spain for its liver and pancreas transplants, with 50 and nine respectively. A total of 154 corneas were also implanted.

In a statement the regional ministry of Health said that the donation rate in Malaga province was 53 donors per million inhabitants, while in Andalucía the average was 48.9 donors per million and the Spanish average was 46.3 donors per million.

The donations among the different public hospitals are as follows: 36 organs and 13 tissues in the Regional; 33 and 32 in the Virgen de la Victoria; seven and 20 in Antequera, ten and seven in the Costa del Sol Hospital and four and five in the Axarquía hospital.

Nationally, hospitals performed 5,383 transplants, an average of 15 per day, which represents an increase of 13% compared to 2021 (4,781) and represents figures similar to those before the pandemic, (5,445 in 2019 and 5,321 in 2018), according to the latest data.