Spain is world number one in transplants for 27th year
Monday, January 21, 2019 @ 1:58 PM
SPAIN once again leads the field in the number of organ transplants carried out – for the 27th year running – and donors are becoming more and more frequent.
In 2018 alone, donors rose in number by 37%, from 2,183 to 2,243, allowing surgeons in Spain to carry out a total of 5,314 transplant operations – up from 5,259 in 2017.
The National Transplant Organisation (ONT) aims to break the 5,500 barrier by the year 2022.
Spain's donation rate now sits at 48 per million inhabitants, having gone up in the past five years by more than ever before, from 35.1 per million, says Beatriz Domínguez-Gil of the ONT, which marks its 30th anniversary in 2019.
Transplant numbers now come in at 114 per million inhabitants – the highest proportion in the world – breaking records with kidney and lung transplants.
Out of Spain's 17 autonomously-governed regions, a total of 10 have surpassed the 50-per-million milestone, seven have broken the 60-per-million barrier and two of them are at over 80 per million – Cantabria (86.2) and La Rioja (80.6).
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