When someone dies, they leave everything behind, except their body. That’s unless they were an organ donor. Spanish surgeon Dr José Manuel Garcia Buitrón says organ donations, especially cadaver donations (organs donated by people who were previously healthy but die due to an accident or brain bleeding, etc) allow donors the opportunity to live on after they have died.
“Don’t donate; everything goes. Donate; you leave something behind. You live on in someone.” In November last year, Buitrón led two local doctors, Dr Prisca Bradshaw and Dr Bridget Elcock, in a five-day advanced international training course in transplant co-ordination, as part of a pilot project for the improvement of live and cadaver organ donation and transplantation in T&T.
The doctors were trained in the legal, technical and social aspects of organ harvesting, and how to keep body and organs in a condition that can be used for transplant. Bradshaw and Elcock subsequently participated in a hospital internship at the Complexo Hospitalario Universitario in Coruña, Spain.
Another local surgeon, Dr James Byam, is in Spain undergoing training in transplant surgery. Spain is the leading country in the world in organ donation and transplantation. It has been at the top of the transplant list at the international level for 17 years, and doubling the European average rate of donors per million.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2012-04-28/living-again
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