The former Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana, and the tobacconist, Agustina Jané, have something in common: they both decided to donate a kidney to their children to save their lives.
His are just two stories out of so many that, as the attached video shows, today illustrate the milestone that Hospital Clínic de Barcelona has just reached: the thousand living donor kidney transplants.
The health center is the hospital in Spain that has carried out the most interventions of this type.
In Spain, about 68,000 interventions have been carried out, the vast majority (63,000) with organs from dead donors. With kidneys from living people, more than 4,700 transplants have been performed throughout Spain and the Clinic, which has remained in the forefront since its first operation of this type in 1965, has been behind more than 21% of them. Since 1965, the technique has been professionalized, with deceased and living donors and less invasive procedures, until the reception of a kidney has become the most common transplant.