The Government of Michoacan recognizes organ donor families

The Minister of Health sets an example and joins as a voluntary donor.

Morelia, Michoacán, September 29, 2023.- Within the framework of the National Organ Donation and Transplantation Day, the State Government of Michoacan, through the State Secretariat of Health (SSM), honored 32 organ donor families, at a ceremony commemorating the donors who gave life to the organs. Patients who were on the waiting list.

Michoacán’s Minister of Health, Elias Ibarra Torres, was responsible for leading the ceremony to honor the appreciation and altruism of donors and their families, an event in which the official also registered as a voluntary donor on the official website of the National Foundation. Transplantation Board (Sinatra) bit.ly/3YKxHIT.

Families such as that of Luis Giovanni García Urbina, of Zenapicoaro; Marcos Orozco Martinez, 15 years old and originally from Orianjato; Luis Fernando Miranda Espinosa, 26, from Lazaro Cárdenas and Lucas Zavala Ramírez, eight, from the state capital; All of them died in accidents. They were known for their generosity of life and “the work of goodness, intelligence, and tangible assistance to humanity. Determination is not easy amid the pain of losing a loved one.”

This was stated by Blanca Martínez Chagulla, Technical Secretary of the State Organ Transplantation Council (COTRA), in which Ibarra Torres highlighted that without a donor there is no transplant and that in the government of Alfredo Ramírez Pedulla, it was possible to reduce the waiting list to receive a kidney graft and among the 250 patients who were Today the waiting list is 120 patients.

The Minister of Health highlighted that, in addition, work is being done to strengthen the culture of donation and so that organ transplants remain free in the Ministry of Health, as patients are also provided with immunosuppressants and medications that are difficult to afford and necessary for this. That the patient does not reject the swallowed organ, and these are medications that are guaranteed today in the entity for those who do not have social security.

The ceremony was attended by authorities from the Mexican Institutes of Social Security (IMSS), the Security and Social Services of State Employees (ISSSTE); Secretary of State for Education (see); Michoacán Public Prosecutor’s Office; State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports (SECOVID); As well as the medical faculties of the Universities of Michoacana of San Nicolas de Hidalgo (UMSNH) and Vasco de Quiroga (Uvaq), among other bodies most promoting the culture of donation, in addition to Amador Bautista Carmona, an organ transplant patient who became today after obtaining his medical degree. He serves on the state’s organ transplantation board.