In France, more than 66,000 people live thanks to a transplanted organ.
This may seem like a lot, yet it is largely insufficient compared to the needs.
The last national plan for organ and tissue transplantation (2017-2021) set the goal of reaching 7,800 annual organ transplants in 2021. We will not be there, even though this does not cover a third of the needs. of the waiting list that same year (26,001 registered)…
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The fault, as in the rest of the world, with the Covid pandemic which dealt a very hard blow to the activity of transplantation, with only 4420 transplants carried out in 2020. But this is not the only excuse: these exceptional circumstances should not be forgotten that the Hexagon showed a worrying decline of 100 to 200 annual transplants from 2018 and 2019, compared to 2017.
At the European level too, France is retreating.
According to a study recently commissioned by the association of renal insufficiency patients Renaloo, Spain, European leader for thirty
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