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Improving Quality of Life: A Story of Organ Donation and Transplantation

The chronic renal failureamong other conditions, lead many people to require a organ transplant to improve their quality of life. For Salvador, the main reasons for improving his health were his daughter and family.

“They had told me that it was a cell that detached from me and from there the disease occurred. From there, they began to put me on hemodialysis, then peritoneal dialysis, which has established me a little better, obviously I was on a diet ”, said Salvador Delgado Gómez, who received a transplant of kidney that his sister donated to him.

However, his sister decided to donate her kidney with what significantly improved their quality of life.

I have a daughter, I have to work. I started to go back to work again. I can carry, go out, eat, obviously a little more right now, with some food limitations, but I keep that very constant. I try not to relapse, I take my medications, I go to my studies, to my tests, which is always the priority, more than anything else, for my body and my health.

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Where to donate organs in Puebla?

Specialists affirm that the number of patients who are successful organ and tissue transplants, depending on the care they maintain. Those interested in being organ donors can do so at the Registry of Voluntary Donors on its web portal and follow the corresponding procedure.

“In this case, several factors are taken into account, that is, it is a very extensive protocol, both for the donor and the recipient, and includes several studies, including blood, urine, phlegm, feces, x-rays, and evaluations by various specialists from us. to see whether both the recipient and the donor are suitable.” explained the nephrologist specialist, José de Jesús Vergara Sánchez.

The health authority informed through its web portal that currently in our country there are close to 23 thousand people waiting for a transplant and that the most common are kidney, cornea, liver and heart. At least in Puebla, there are 2 thousand people waiting and they are carried out 160 transplants per year.

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2023-06-07 20:51:26
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