In Mexico, 75 percent of kidney transplants come from living donors. For this reason, the institutions compromising the national health system will reinforce organ donations from deceased persons, as they still are low, said Jos\u00e9 Salvador Aburto Morales, General Director of the National Transplants Center of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Aburto Morales said that the goal is to reverse that percentage and reach a balance between living and dead donors: “In Mexico there is an important organs requirement for transplantation purposes, we have more than 20 thousand patients waiting for an organ; most of them (about 12,000) require a kidney transplant from a deceased donor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three years ago our country had an organ donation rate of 3.2 per million people, and now stands at 4.03 per million. This figure is still low compared to other countries.<\/p>\n
When a transplant is carried out in the country, the institution (public or private) must inform the Cenatra, providing the donor\u2019s and the receiver\u2019s information. In this way, the registrars are updated, and illegal practices are avoided.<\/p>\n
According to Cenatra\u2019s Director, “the general health law requires health facilities to meet certain requirements. One of these is to asking those people (donors and patients) to sign a document certifying the donation is free of trade or sale.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who donate must do it voluntarily, altruistically and there must not be a negotiation in the middle. It must go through an evaluation by the transplant committee, by the specialists and the psychological department of each hospital. However, this does not guarantee that there could not be an (illegal) case,” Aburto Morales added.<\/p>\n